RBS - files not being purged

I run a simple .aspx website on a Windows Server 2008 machine.

There is NO impersonation, and System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name returns NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, which it the account which the application pool runs. In my web.config, I have <authentication mode="Forms">.

I tried to test the security of the application and server by removing file permissions to the .aspx files. I was greatly worried when the website continued to run without problem (it should not have been able to read the .aspx files).

By turning on file level auditing, I discovered that the .aspx files were being read by the machine$ account (if the machine is called Serv1, then the files would be read by the Serv1$ account, which seems to have access to all files on the local machine).

Is this a security breach or is this behaviour by design ?

Please can somebody assist, as I am worried.

Afternoon,

Here is my dilema, on my site i have a WordPress Audio player (http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone) that plays my mp3's.

It loads the Mp3's in by javascript...example below:

       AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_7", { soundFile: "/Files/Music/[name of file].mp3" });

This file name is clearly visible in the browser source. Not a problem, however this means that any user can legitimately browse to the file directly and download it.

Now i still need the mp3 player (which is flash) to have access to the file but if a user was to try accessing the file directly, they would not be allowed access to it.

I am not sure how to go about this, i am circling the idea of a httphandler but not sure if this is sufficiant to stop the direct access to the file.

Any help would be appreciated

I dont have the SQL EXPRESS installed instead I have SQL Standard Edition.

 I have two SQL Server instances installed.

 1- UserLT (this is sql 2000)
2- UserLT\SQL2005 (this is SQL 2005 named instance)

But when i try to add a database to my VS website project I get the following error:

Connection to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL server express 2005 to function properly. please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkId=4925

I went in Tools>Opetions>DataBase tools>Data Connection>Sql Server Instance Name (blank for default)

and changed the "SQLEXPRESS" to "USERLT\SQL2005".

But I still get the same error message. Any ideas how i can resolve this issue?

One of my NUnit tests has to read in some values from config files.  In my main application this process works perfectly well, however when I run the unit test, the code that reads in the values from the config files doesnt read anything in.  Ive tried putting app.config in my unit test project (I even tried web.config) but nothing seems to work.  Are there any special steps involved when reading from config files in an nunit test ?

Ive created an NUnit test project in my solution and have added 3 tests.  They all fail with the same error

Systems.Code.Test.TransactionTest.CreateDataContext_ConnectionString_ReturnsDataContextObject:

SetUp : System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for 'Systems.Utils.ConstantHelpers' threw an exception.

  ----> System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

heres the test method

[Test]
        public void CreateDataContext_ConnectionString_ReturnsDataCon

So I took the Forums advice and made a separate RESX file for each ASPX page in my web app. Personally, I wanted to put all of my language strings into a single global RESX file, but instead I did it the 'right' way and made a separate one for each ASPX. So now Ive got about 100 different RESX files with 5 to 15 short strings of text each. Many of them are repeats. The question is, how can I export these 100 RESX files into one single spreadsheet that I can send off for translation to other languages? Whats the normal way to do that? I dont want to send the translating company 100 little files, I'd rather send just one big one. And I'd like to omit duplicate text strings (for example, "Cancel" appears in at least 50 of the RESX files - I dont want to pay for that word to be translated 50 times).

Thanks

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