Basic authentication and object permissions

March 07th, 2012 - 03:08 pm ET by Dave Vick | Report spam

I've got an issue and it is one of those where I'm not even sure how to ask the question.

We have a web site the uses basic authentication through IIS 7 (Windows 2007 server SP2) and everything works fine except for a com object. The object is "easyPDF.PDFProcessor.7" in case anyone knows of it.

The problem is that when I authenticate using regular user credentials this object throws an error 2147155963 and fails with the message "unable to open output file". I'm sure the message and error are specific to the object but it points to a permissions issue.

However, if I login using my admin credentials there is no problem and the process runs perfectly. I can't even seem to phrase a search correctly to find out how the login credentials affect the permissions of the object.

I have the directory in question set so that "everyone", "authenticated users", the user created for the object itself (which is also in the admin group), "users", and "IIS_IUSRS" all have full control.

I really have no idea what to even look at from here. IF anyone can shed any light on it or point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

thanks

Dave