Can't write any FSOs

I don't know what I've done to cause this, but the site I am hosting on a Windows XP Pro system (IIS 5.1) used to work fine. Now, whenever I try to use fileSystemObjects to write to the hard drive, the browser just locks up.

I can't delete a file object or a folder object, I can't move it, I can't create a textStream object. All these things just make the browser lock up. All the obvious permissions should be set correctly

I can't find the source of the problem. Any guesses?

I am on a LAN, and my IP address has recently been opened to the world. While I was developing locally, everything worked. Now that I am visible to the world, it's not working. Could that cause this problem?

Thanks,

GM

P.S. I CAN still write to a database. Just nothing thru FSOs.

Assuming you didn't "catch" anything from the outside world

Did you recently install any firewall or script blocking software? Norton's script blocking can cause this kind of symptom.

I had McAfee firewall, but I uninstalled it to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't.

Unless the uninstall didn't undo everything.

GM

Take a look here & see if it applies to your McAfee

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2180

I'll look, but the weird thing is I CAN read files. Just not write.

Script blocking is by far the popular answer to this problem on google. I'm sure there may be other causes, such as incorrect permissions somewhere.

I don't see any relation between your internet access changes, unless some firewall software or other lockdown software was run on your computer.

You could try doing the same fso code from a .vbs file directly in windows & see what happens. If the write works properly you probably have a permissions problem.

Are you sure you have write permissions and script execution permissions set in the IIS on the folder(s) you are trying to use?