ASP Net which user account running Web Service on IIS 7

Question

I want to know which account running my Web Service Application so that I can assign the read write access to that account  I have researched and see most of the sources mentions about ASPNET account  but on my 2008 server  there is not any acount named ASPNET  Some sources say ASPNET is being replaced by NETWORK SERVICE   Also  can I assign to another user account to run the service  And how to do that   Thanks

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Server 2008

Start Task Manager Find w3wp.exe process (description IIS Worker Process) Check User Name column to find who you're IIS process is running as.

In the IIS GUI you can configure your application pool to run as a specific user: Application Pool default Advanced Settings Identity

Here's the info from Microsoft on setting up Application Pool Identites:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/

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You have to find the right user that needs to use temp folder  In my computer I follow the above link and find the special folder c  inetpub  that iis use to execute her web services  I check what users could use these folder and find something like these  computername iis isusrs  The main issue comes when you try to add it to all permit on temp folder I was going to properties  security tab  edit button  add user button then i put iis isusrs  and  check names  button  It doesn  t find anything The reason is the in my case it looks   windows 2008 r2 iis 7   on pdgs local location You have to go to  Select Users or Groups  form  click on Advanced button  click on Locations button and will see a specific hierarchy    computername Entire Directory  pdgs local    So when you try to add an user  its search name on pdgs local  You have to select computername and click ok   Click on  Find Now   Look for IIS IUSRS on Name RDN  column  click ok  So we go back to  Select Users or Groups  form with new and right user underline  click ok  allow full control  and click ok again   That  s all folks  Hope it helps   Jose from Moralzarzal   Madrid

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I had a ton of trouble with this and then found a great solution   Create a file in a text editor called whoami php with the below code as it s content  save the file and upload it to public html  or whatever you root of your webserver directory is named   It should output a useful string that you can use to track down the user the webserver is running as  my output was  php is running as user  nt authority iusr  which allowed me to track down the permissions I needed to modify to the user  IUSR     lt  php      outputs the username that owns the running php httpd process       on a system with the  whoami  executable in the path    echo  php is running as user      exec  whoami      gt

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Look at the Identity of the Application Pool that s running your application   By default it will be the Network Service account  but you can change this   At least that s how it works on 2003 server  don t know if some details have changed for 2008 server

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You are most likely looking for the IIS IUSRS account

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