permission question

Question: I'm new to .net and have a permissions question. I have a folder named 'members' that I gave access only to the membership users group on my local development pc. When I publish, I can't see where I can set permissions on that directory on DASP. I can http: to the directory and see all my files. However I can't open any and can't copy to my drive. Is this normal by design? I tried to use the website administration tool that is in VWD 2008 on my live site but I'm not able to.
I'd really like to see a primer on setting permissions on my files on the live server. My web.config isn't encrypted at the moment and wondering how much exposure I may have.
Any insight or links are most appreciated!
Thanks
Chris

 

I'm not quite sure exactly what permission you are referring to but if you are looking to modify the NTF permission you should be able to do this in the Permission Manager inside your hosting control panel. You may want to refer to this kb article for some information on our Permission Manager.

http://support.discountasp.net/KB/a167/permission-manager.aspx?KBSearchID=0

Bare in mind that our Permission Manager only sets permission in the folder level. It does not go into the file level. So basically what ever permission you set on the folder level will propagate down to the file level.

 

Thank you Raymond. You are really up on the new posts....
Anyway, I question the way .net treats permissions. In my folders I have a web.config stating the permissions. Is this the common way on doing so vs actually setting permissions on the folder? I'll do some hacking on my site to see if I can get to the source code in the root and know if I'm ok or not.
Thx!!

 

What platform are you on? Are you on IIS 6 or IIS 7?

 

I'm on IIS 7. Anyway, I'm going to go through the tutorials in your 'sticky' at the top. I think they will answer my questions.
Thx

 

IIS 7 is a little different. If you are looking to password protect a directory use this kb article as a guideline.

https://support.discountasp.net/KB/...ng-directories-in-iis-7.aspx?KBSearchID=34195