I've run into the same problem, I had to 'chmod 777 images' to be able 
to create dirs or files, which is BAD security!

Brian Aitken wrote:

> Hiya
> 
> I promise I won't keep perstering you after this question :-)
> 
> My problem is this - I've got a complete system that works perfectly on
> Linux but I've got to set it up on a new server that's running Windows.
> When I try to handle file uploads I get errors (when the same code worked
> perfectly under Linux).
> 
> When I try to use mkdir like this:
> 
> $name4loc = urlencode($mname);
> $loc = "./images/$name4loc";
> mkdir("$loc",0777);
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> Warning: MkDir failed (Permission denied) in
> D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\HATII\admn\php\moss\mregdone.php on line 98
> 
> When I try to copy a file like this:
> 
> if (!copy ($test, $test_name))
> 
> 
>   echo("Problem: Unable to copy image. <br>Please try again.");
>   exit;
>  }
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> Warning: Unable to create 'vinlogo.jpg': Permission denied in
> D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\HATII\admn\php\a2paw\uptestdone.php on line 41
> 
> I'm guessing PHP is somehow lacking permission to write to the file system
> but the technicians have tried changing the file permission for the
> directory I'm trying to write to and the same error is given.  We don't know
> what else to do.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 


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