401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied error from web app running in IIS 7.5 using App Pool Identity
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I have an ASP.NET app on a Windows 2008 server, IIS 7.5.
When I try to access web site, I get a login popup. If I click "cancel" I get a 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. The app is using Windows authentication (anonymous is disabled).
The app has it's own app pool, running under the App Pool Identity. If I change the app pool to run under the NetworkService account, my website functions just fine.
I'm guessing that this is just a permissions issue, but can't figure out what permissions I need to change.
I gave the App Pool Identity permissions on the physical directory of the app, but that didn't solve the problem.
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