ASP.NET APP keeps getting access denied to network share

I have "Network Service" and myself added to the Security Permissions of the folder but I get the following error:

Access to the path '\\path\folder\image.gif' is denied.

ASP.NET is not authorized to access the requested resource. Consider granting access rights to the resource to the ASP.NET request identity. ASP.NET开发者_高级运维 has a base process identity (typically {MACHINE}\ASPNET on IIS 5 or Network Service on IIS 6 and IIS 7, and the configured application pool identity on IIS 7.5) that is used if the application is not impersonating. If the application is impersonating via <identity impersonate="true"/>, the identity will be the anonymous user (typically IUSR_MACHINENAME) or the authenticated request user. 

Check under which user the ApplicationPool is really running: If you're running IIS 7 (and higher) this user is not the "Network Service".

Additionally you can assign a designated user to run this app-pool and grant the rights accordingly.

Need to check in IIS pool that asp application is run under. Than you can assign to this pool strong identity that have acess to this folder.

Network Share had correct Security permissions but the Share permissions were not configured properly for the user.

Is the folder on another server? If so, you need to give the machine account for the server making the request read permissions on the remote server.