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Using WCF's net.pipe in a website with impersonate=true

I'm trying to use WCF named pipes in a web site, and it's failing with errors:

There was no endpoint listening at net.pipe://localhost/mypipename that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.

and the InnerException:

The pipe name could not be obtained for net.pipe://localhost/mypipename.

and there is another inner exception giving an access denied message.

My web site is using impersonation, and looking around the internet, this seems to be relevant, but I don't know how to fix it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks Matt

Solution

  • I worked around the problem by making the IIS endpoint where I ended up calling the net pipe from available to anonymous users, which meant no impersonation.