Q:

IIS pool access to linked folder

I’ve a web application in ASP.NET in a pool application on my server, in the same server I’ve a web service in another application pool that’s use a domain user to connect a linked folder, my problem is, my web application need to map  another folder on the same disk of the service’s linked folder but when I try to do that was returned an error, it says I can’t map the folder because there an active connection yet.
How can I do that?

A:

It's other way around. Don't map the folder at all.
Let your applications access the files directly through SMB (\\server\share\file). If accounts running them are able to map those shares, they will also be able to access the files.

