Need help running an executable with ASP (permission troubles).

[zensunni]

This is the code I'm using:

    set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
    wshell.run "C:\<websitedir>\test.bat"
    set wshell = nothing

I've been getting this error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a0046'

Permission denied

/<scriptname>.asp, line 3

The bat file has been given IUSR_<Machine_n ame> permissions, but it still produces permission errors.

BTW, it's IIS ver 5.1

[DrBunchman]

Do you have any problems running other exe's using shell? If you try and run Excel or something like that does it still give you the error?

Dr B

[zensunni]

Okay, I was able to open excel with this script. At first I expected excel to just open up, but nothing happened. There were no errors in the script, so i checked the processes. I noticed that it had been opened under SYSTEM.

Thanks for giving me a starting point. I'll keep checking different things.

[edit] Update: I think the exe that runs the batch file is what's denying permission. In any case, I just bypassed the bat, and ran the executable directly. If I need to, I can just run multiple commands through the asp script.

Thanks again for your help.

[DrBunchman]

No problem, for what it was worth!

Glad you got it sorted.

Dr B