title: 403 Forbidden in SharePoint After Deploying Website
body: <p>We have an old ASP.NET application hosted in IIS6/Win2k3. It's a document generation application that uploads the documents to SharePoint 2003. The application uses an application pool under the user <code>sharepointservice</code>, which is the administrator of the SharePoint site. The web application, which has been recently migrated to .net 2.0 from 1.1, uses NTLM authentication to identify our intranet users.</p>
  
  <p>As the IT administrators are on holidays, I, the developer, has been given local admin rights to the Win2k3 box. The issue is, whenever I <em>deploy</em> the website, though the documents are uploaded appropriately to the SharePoint site via the application, the users are not able to download them. The error is</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied</p>
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  <p>I know the IT guys use a service account, not their domain user accounts. </p>
  
  <p>I have already tried to modify the permissions in IIS for that website. I even put <code>Everyone</code> and <code>&lt;Domain&gt;\Users</code> to have read access to all of those folders, to no avail. I've scoured the net, there are no definitive answers. Am I missing something else?</p>