Hi all. This is a lengthy post so take a comfortable seat :-)
I have a classic ASP site (I did NOT develop this). This runs fine on IIS6 on WS2003.
There is a COM component that was developed by someone many years ago in VB6. There is a function in there called "GetCertFile". You give it a folder path (UNC network path) and it deals with it and gives you back a filename. That works just fine.
I now have developed a new website. ASP.NET 4.0, running on IIS7.5. This is a seperate physical server than the one which has the classic ASP site.
COM Component is registered - so this is not a problem.
This new site uses the SAME functionality in terms of calling the GetCertFile. Feeding it the SAME UNC path results in an empty string being given back. This makes no sense.
When I look at the Last Win32 error, I get error code 3 which is File not found.
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