The directory structure you cited shows the path as C:\ColdFusion9\xcfc, but the error message indicates your mapping may actually be pointing at C:\ColdFusion\xcfc (it's missing the 9 at the end of ColdFusion).

-Carl V.

Well check to see if the a/c CF is using can see the file first.  That might be all it is.

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Adam

Most of the internal system accounts don't show in the User administration.  But you should be able to see them when you examine the security on a folder or file.

Again, what account is the ColdFusion service running as?

Right click on the XCFC folder and select Properties.  Click on the Security tab. What group and user names are listed at the top?  If the account that ColdFusion is running as is not listed, add it.  Click the Edit... button.  In the dialog that pops up, click Add...  Another dialog will pop up.  Click the Advanced... button to open yet another dialog.  On this one, click Find Now. The bottom of this dialog should show all of the user and groups that exist on your computer, including all the internal system accounts.  Find the one that the ColdFusion service is using in the list, select it, and click OK.  Click OK to close the previous dialog.  That user will now show up in the Permissions dialog, with Read, Read & execute, and List folder contents checked.  If ColdFusion doesn't need to write to this folder, then click OK to close the permissions dialog, and OK to close the properties dialog.

No.  ColdFusion doesn't create its own user account.  It defaults to LocalService (I think).  Try enabling the Administrator account, and logging in under that account.  Sometimes Windows 7 will not give a user that is a member of the Administrator group full Administrator rights to everything.  Logging in as the actual Administrator account should allow you to see all the internal system accounts.

You might actually want to create a ColdFusion user, and not make that user a member of Administrators.  You'll need to grant that user read and modfiy rights to the C:\ColdFusion9 directory, but nowhere else on your computer (unless you want ColdFusion to access files in other places).  Then go into the Administrative Tools --> Services applet and change the Login As settings for the "ColdFusion9 Application Server" service to the ColdFusion user.

Have you restarted CF since you made the perms changes?

Irrespective of what you think you have set for that directory, can you go to the FILE and check the "Effective Permissions" on it for the local service a/c.

Speaking of silly dev environments:

The highest security I had to work with was "Secret" too, writing the system that processed *telegrams* moving between [can't say] and [can't say] (none of the [can't says] were at all interesting, btw).  There needed to be an air gap between the node receiving the traffic and anything on the network, and there needed to be a door blocking that air gap.  It still at least had a floppy drive though (this was 15yrs ago, so FDDs were still around).  But that was the live machine.  I could still write the code on my own PC on the network.  Couldn't test it though... it just had to work... those were the days.

Then there was the joint I worked at at which one was not allowed to have cellphones switched on within any room that had computers in them.  For supposedly national security reasons (it is actually possible to read the display on a CRT just from analysing the interference on a cellphone carrier, apparently).  Heaven forbid Zee Russians (as it was in those days) found out there was a printer out of toner on the fourth floor... which was the sort of thing I was working on @ the time... ;-)

Bloody hell I'm glad I'm not in the civil service any more.

[And - hey - what's that black helicopter landing outside...?]

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Adam