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I want to know which account running my Web Service/Application so that I can assign the read/write access to that account. I have researched and see most of the sources mentions about ASPNET account, but on my 2008 server, there is not any acount named ASPNET. Some sources say ASPNET is being replaced by NETWORK SERVICE?
Also, can I assign to another user account to run the service? And how to do that?
Thanks,
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For example, regardless of the language of Windows that you install, the IIS account name will always be IUSR and the group name will be IIS_IUSRS.
An application pool identity allows you to run an application pool under a unique account without having to create and manage domain or local accounts. The name of the application pool account corresponds to the name of the application pool.
If you run your application in Visual Studio on your PC (localhost) you'll get your user name. If you deploy ASP.NET web application on IIS, you will probably get the NETWORK SERVICE account, because that is default user running IIS 6.0 (ASPNET on Windows Server 2000's IIS 5.0).
Server 2008
Start Task Manager Find w3wp.exe process (description IIS Worker Process) Check User Name column to find who you're IIS process is running as.
In the IIS GUI you can configure your application pool to run as a specific user: Application Pool default Advanced Settings Identity
Here's the info from Microsoft on setting up Application Pool Identites:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/
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