Access to NAS location

Question

Dear Sir/Madam we have an application which is developed in ASP.Net 2008 and .Net framework 2.0 version it's already working in Production from long time. As part of business logic application read/write files from/to web server location as attachments. Recently client requested to change attachment files storage location to NAS location. we have simply created new folder in specified NAS location as similar to exist folder and changed web.config file to change location. Somehow after change it NAS location application couldn't access new location getting error message `access denied`. Please suggest.

Manikandan Murugesan · Answer

Refer the Following Links : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/207671/how-to-access-network-files-from-iis-applications http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/sri85kanth/accessing-network-drive-in-C-Sharp/ https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19830/How-to-Access-Network-Files-using-asp-net https://forums.asp.net/t/1683172.aspx?Upload+File+To+Nas+Network+Attached+Storage+With+Username+password Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. NAS is specialized for serving files either by its hardware software or configuration.

ramesh s · Answer

Hello All I am able to access adding below statement in web.config file. But as per security policy I mustn't mention password in web.config file could anyone help me on alternate solution asap.

ramesh s · Answer

I am able to access adding below statement in web.config file. this article is good to understand impersonation http://aspalliance.com/336_Upload_Files_Using_ASPNET_Impersonation_and_UNC_Share.all

ramesh s · Answer

I would like to add one more point here I am able to access same NAS location when executiring application from my local machine. Something it didn't work from executing from Dev machine.