Microsoft KB Archive/260985

= XIMS: Minimum NTFS Permissions Required to Use CDONTS =

Article ID: 260985

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
 * Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
 * Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.1 for NT Server
 * Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.2 for NT Server
 * Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 2.0 for NT Server

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This article was previously published under Q260985



SUMMARY
This article discusses the minimum NTFS permissions that are required to use Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Servers (CDONTS) in conjunction with either the Internet Information Server (IIS) SMTP service or the Exchange Server Internet Mail Service.



MORE INFORMATION
If you are using CDONTS with the Option Pack SMTP service, the following minimum NTFS permissions are required:
 * The IUSR account must have Add rights to the Mailroot\Pickup folder.
 * If you are running CDONTS out of process, the IWAM account must have Add rights to the Mailroot\Pickup folder.
 * The System account must have Full Control rights to the entire Mailroot folder structure.
 * The default location for the Mailroot folder is Inetpub\Mailroot.

If you are using CDONTS with Exchange Server, the following minimum NTFS permissions are required:
 * The IUSR account must have Add rights to the Exchsrvr\Imcdata\Pickup folder.
 * If you are running CDONTS out of process, the IWAM account must have Add rights to the Exchsrvr\Imcdata\Pickup folder.
 * The Exchange Server service account must have Full Control rights to the entire Exchsrvr\Imcdata folder structure.

Keywords: kbinfo KB260985

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