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mccreight

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:49 pm
Post subject: Using a network-drive with IIS 6.0
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Hello,

I have a website set up, with an own internet-connection, win 2003 server
and IIS 6.0. Everthing works fine... but I have a problem, that requires
some (to me mysterious) settings.

I have a cgi-app (EXE) that calls a database-file on a network-drive (XSmile,
which (of course) I mapped locally on the win2003-server. But when I call my
CGI-app it can't access the X-Drive eventhough under "security" I set the
"Standard-Internet-User" as a user of this drive and granted all rights (for
test-reason) for the drive and sub-directories.

Does anyone know, what settings I have to make under IIS 6.0? The
alternative would be, that I keep a copy of the database-files on the
machine running the webserver (which of course is no real alternative).
Virtual drives also won't do the trick because the routines the CGI-EXE is
using, are routines from our database-apps and since these routines have
continious changes and enhancements, I of course don't want to reprogram
everthing 2 times just so it works with the web-app as well as the
database-apps.

Any help is very much apreciated.

Thanks in advance

Philip

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:49 pm
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"Philip McCreight" <mccreight DeleteThis @tiernotruf.org> wrote in message
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 > Hello,
 >
 > I have a website set up, with an own internet-connection, win 2003 server
 > and IIS 6.0. Everthing works fine... but I have a problem, that requires
 > some (to me mysterious) settings.
 >
 > I have a cgi-app (EXE) that calls a database-file on a network-drive (XSmile,
 > which (of course) I mapped locally on the win2003-server. But when I call
my
 > CGI-app it can't access the X-Drive eventhough under "security" I set the
 > "Standard-Internet-User" as a user of this drive and granted all rights
(for
 > test-reason) for the drive and sub-directories.
 >
 > Does anyone know, what settings I have to make under IIS 6.0? The
 > alternative would be, that I keep a copy of the database-files on the
 > machine running the webserver (which of course is no real alternative).
 > Virtual drives also won't do the trick because the routines the CGI-EXE is
 > using, are routines from our database-apps and since these routines have
 > continious changes and enhancements, I of course don't want to reprogram
 > everthing 2 times just so it works with the web-app as well as the
 > database-apps.
 >
 > Any help is very much apreciated.

Start here:
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:49 pm
Post subject: Re: Using a network-drive with IIS 6.0 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:49:22 +0200, "Philip McCreight"
<mccreight.TakeThisOut@tiernotruf.org> wrote:


 >I have a website set up, with an own internet-connection, win 2003 server
 >and IIS 6.0. Everthing works fine... but I have a problem, that requires
 >some (to me mysterious) settings.
 >
 >I have a cgi-app (EXE) that calls a database-file on a network-drive (XSmile,
 >which (of course) I mapped locally on the win2003-server. But when I call my
 >CGI-app it can't access the X-Drive eventhough under "security" I set the
 >"Standard-Internet-User" as a user of this drive and granted all rights (for
 >test-reason) for the drive and sub-directories.
 >
 >Does anyone know, what settings I have to make under IIS 6.0? The
 >alternative would be, that I keep a copy of the database-files on the
 >machine running the webserver (which of course is no real alternative).
 >Virtual drives also won't do the trick because the routines the CGI-EXE is
 >using, are routines from our database-apps and since these routines have
 >continious changes and enhancements, I of course don't want to reprogram
 >everthing 2 times just so it works with the web-app as well as the
 >database-apps.

You'll need permission for the account you're using, whether it's the
anonymous user account or whatever, on both the share and folders on
the network drive. Might try Filemon to see what's beeing accessed
and with what acount.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Using a network-drive with IIS 6.0 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:49:22 +0200, "Philip McCreight"
<mccreight DeleteThis @tiernotruf.org> wrote:

 >Hello,
 >
 >I have a website set up, with an own internet-connection, win 2003 server
 >and IIS 6.0. Everthing works fine... but I have a problem, that requires
 >some (to me mysterious) settings.
 >
 >I have a cgi-app (EXE) that calls a database-file on a network-drive (XSmile,
 >which (of course) I mapped locally on the win2003-server. But when I call my
 >CGI-app it can't access the X-Drive eventhough under "security" I set the
 >"Standard-Internet-User" as a user of this drive and granted all rights (for
 >test-reason) for the drive and sub-directories.
 >
 >Does anyone know, what settings I have to make under IIS 6.0? The
 >alternative would be, that I keep a copy of the database-files on the
 >machine running the webserver (which of course is no real alternative).
 >Virtual drives also won't do the trick because the routines the CGI-EXE is
 >using, are routines from our database-apps and since these routines have
 >continious changes and enhancements, I of course don't want to reprogram
 >everthing 2 times just so it works with the web-app as well as the
 >database-apps.
 >
 >Any help is very much apreciated.
 >
 >Thanks in advance
 >
 >Philip

Philip,

IIS6 performs passthrough authentication by default so you need to
check that your IUSR account (if you are using anonymous access) has
the necessary rights to access the remote database files. I presume
thats what you meant when you say "Standard-Internet-User" ? Do you
mean the IUSR account ?

I would also suggest using a true UNC path (i.e \\server\sharename)
rather than using a mapped drive as the drive mapping may not exist in
the profile of every account on the server. It may onl;y exist in the
profile of the user who logged on and created the mapping.


Regards,

Paul Lynch
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