Denied Access

Thanks for your help.. IT was my host. They had for reasons best known to themselves restricted permissions tot eh destination folder

The problem was that the person who installed CF allowed the CF service to log in using HIS username and password.

Sheesh...sounds like something I'd do. Thanks for the tip.

This may not be your situation, but it might help others with similar problems...

We have had this happen before on our intranet. The problem was that the person who installed CF allowed the CF service to log in using HIS username and password. As a result, CF had access to everything the installer had access to.

Following good network security practices, the installers network password expires every 45 days or something like that. Note, however, that the permissions problems did NOT coincide with the expiration of the installers password, so people were stumped.

As it turned out, the login username and password are not validated until the NEXT TIME the CF service is stopped and started. Thus, the problem did not rear it's head until there was a need to restart the server. This happened to be about a month after the installers password actually expired.

As I said, this is not exactly the same as your problem, but it could be a username/password issue nonetheless, preventing the username and password combination of the CF service from 'seeing' the directory in question.

Check the permissions on the web root for where the file is to be uploaded to. Also, someone correct me if I am wrong, check the permissions on the CF install directory, as I believe file uploads use the install directory temporally until the upload is complete.