Access is denied when calling exe from IE 6 after SP2 upgrade

[Guest]

Hi,
Since upgrading to XP SP2 I'm getting an "access is denied" popup error
message with the following vbscript code in IE 6:
....
xxprt = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\abc\prtprog.EXE"
window.open xxprt
.....
This worked prior to the SP2 upgrade and the exe works when run from Windows
Explorer it just fails via the browser. When I change the path to :
xxprt = "http://localhost/abc/prtprog.EXE"
it works except it then gets a "File not found 53" vb error for a file that
is in the directory.
I've had a look at the security updates for SP2 and tried a few things (eg.
adding IUSR_ account to all directories and exe,inserting Mark of Web
comment) but to no avail.
Thanks in Advance,
Michael

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

(Cross-posting to IE6 group microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser )

Michael,
You should see the Internet Explorer 6 group.

 

[Guest]

I've found a work-around to this problem. Instead of using window.open from
vbscript, I use the following ASP code:

set oShell=createobject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.Run "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\abc\prtprog.EXE"

Regards,
Michael R