What permissions does Network Service require for Vista / IIS7?
After making a few more attempts at development on VS2008 / Vista / IIS7, I am wondering about some things regarding the Network Service account. I had no problems with my site until I tried to set up a Sql Role Membership Provider that creates a local database in the App_Data folder. Somewhere out there, the Network Service was missing the permissions it needed to authenticate my client.
I resolved the issue by changing the application pool to run under my admin account (and later granting Network Service admin permissions for now), but I'm curious what Network Service permissions are missing as I end up like keeping it (and my sites) from the admin group. Any ideas?
Also, where is a good place to debug this stuff? EventLogs don't have anything useful, so I'm not sure where else would be a good place to find out when an account tries to do something and is denied. Maybe I just didn't configure the logs correctly?
Thank!
Oddly enough, it looks like the write access on the web available on the web was not sufficient. Apparently he wants to read access to everything that is in the "Documents \ Visual Studio 2008" directory (the site is hosted inside this directory). It seems now. Thanks ProcessMonitor!