Need to execute *.exe in server from ASP.net

My current situation is that I need to execute an exe(which creates a local .txt file) in remote server with IIS hosting an ASP.net/C# API. I created a local user(say userA) as admin to run the web service in the remote server but the .txt file was not created. I already checked and granted necessary folder permissions to userA and added the user in various groups. The funny thing is that if i am logged in as userA in the remote system, the exe gets executed as expected. If i log out then it fails. Server is Win server 2008 with IIS 7. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

UPDATE: I’ve solved the issue and posted the answer and a few links to related issues here on SO. In short, I needed to set ‘load user profile’ true in IIS app pool.

Thanks everyone for their contribution

EDIT: Code extracted from comments

Process proc = new Process(); 
proc.StartInfo.FileName = path; 
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = exeparams; 
proc.Start(); 
proc.WaitForExit(); 
stat = proc.ExitCode; 
if (stat != 0) 
{ 
    throw new Functions.log("Error"); 
}

Answers:

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Method 1

UPDATE: I managed to solve the issue after many weeks. Thank you all for your contribution. Apparently IIS does not load windows user profiles by default. So when running as a different user who is not logged on, their windows profile must be loaded by IIS. In advanced setting menu of your app pool, there is an option “load windows profile” I just changed this to true. In prior versions of IIS, this was set to ‘true’ by default.

Related questions on SO with same solution:

1) Security exceptions in ASP.NET and Load User Profile option in IIS 7.5

2) Running a asp.net web application project on IIS7 throws exception

3) System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission Exception on New Deployment

Another
4) http://geekswithblogs.net/ProjectLawson/archive/2009/05/05/iis-system.web.aspnethostingpermission-exception-on-windows-7-rc.aspx

Method 2

You can use Process.Start

Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "CVS.exe";
process.StartInfo.Arguments = "if any";
process.Start();

There is also a post about running processes as another user in asp.net:

http://weblogs.asp.net/hernandl/archive/2005/12/02/startprocessasuser.aspx

Supplying user credential

In short it says that you must redirect the process, with code like this:

ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");

info.UseShellExecute = false;

info.RedirectStandardInput = true;

info.RedirectStandardError = true;

info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

info.UserName = dialog.User; // see the link mentioned at the top

info.Password = dialog.Password;

using (Process install = Process.Start(info))

{

      string output = install.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

      install.WaitForExit();

      // Do something with you output data

      Console.WriteLine(output);

}

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