Thanks to you. It works to set the priviliges to system. But I understand, that this would open a security hole, what is not acceptable for us. Anyway, thank you, Sbenghe and Brad.
If anybody has another work around to ping a machine from an .net page, please let me know. Frerich >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >> Brad Wilson >> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:25 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [DOTNET] ping V2 >> >> > You must run the aspnet process using a user with high privilege ( for >> > example SYSTEM :)); >> >> > You can change the machine.config file; replace the default "machine" >> > username with "SYSTEM" in the "processModel" tag, attribute "userName" >> >> I would _strongly_ recommend against this. It's a serious security change >> you're making here for the sake of a ping. > >Nobody say isn't; Not only you recommend this, but Microsoft say the same >thing when changed the process identity of the asp.net process from System >(in beta versions) to ASPNET (on V1). I only try to say what can be done to >run the example :) > >Dumitru Sbenghe > >> >> Brad You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
