As far as I remember, IIS used to have a reserved user that it ran all its actions under. All you have to do is to give this user the necessary permissions (I remember the username started with I). Here's a link that might help : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812614 -- itoctopus - http://www.itoctopus.com "kats Ant" <katsikad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BAY110-W2DF00E72483FEF5AF9375C5350@xxxxxxxxxx Hi all a i am running a windows 2003 server with IIS. I have created a php script that uploads a file to a server. in the server i have users and a user1 has permission to folder1, user2 has permissions to folder2. I want an administrator to run the script and upload a file to these foldes. how can the script access the folders that only various users have access? _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php