Prevent .NET from writing to C:\Windows\Temp

Question

I\'ve got a C# application that I\'m trying to push out to a distributed network. The application works fine locally (as always), but when I push it out to the network, it

Answer 1

It seems that webservices require read/write permission to %SystemRoot%\Temp (MSDN).

From here:

If you're running ASP.NET 2.0 or above, you can assign the required permissions with the command:

aspnet_regiis -GA MachineName\Account

This blog post contains instructions on how to change the location of the SystemRoot\Temp folder used for this (as well as instructions on how to use reflector to determine the setting in web.config to set for a situation like this)