Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Tip: Debugging Security Issues with ArcGIS Server
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:16:51 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: ArcGIS Server

Today I had to try and figure out why I could not publish a map file to ArcGIS Server. The message I got was

"Server Object instance creation failed on machine foomachine. Document D:\arcgisserver\maps\mymap.mxd can not be opened."

When I checked the permissions on the file all looked good - the ArcGISSOC user had access to the file. So where's the beef?

Instead of messing around in the security settings for hours on end, I simply fired up ArcMap as the ArcGISSOC user. It's easy to do - just drop this into a batch file, and you're off and running...

runas /user:youdomain\arcgissoc /profile /savecred "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Bin\ArcMap.exe"

Then, try to browse to the file in question and open it. In my case, the problem was ArcGISSOC could not access the D: drive, which seemed to override the explicit permission I granted on that file.

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