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by scottorgan

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I am using a Win2K Server to host a company website. One of our programmers is developing a database application in MS Visual InterDev to run on the site. Today we ran into an issue where whenever the user would try to add a record to the database it would give a "this page cannot be displayed". I was able to resolve this by giving the INERNET GUEST USER account all rights to the folder containing the database(except "Take Ownership" & "Delete Subfolders and files".) My concern is that this is overkill... What rights should the guest account have for such a folder? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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by parbo

The Internet guest user would only need read and write permission for such a folder. Read to be able to see the file and write so that things can be added to the database.
Hope this helps

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