Virtual Private Directories UNC

[Gorge]

Hi All,

Using IIS, I am trying to add a virtual directory on another machine.

The other machine is a domain controller with a shared directory. IE:
\\dom01\SharedDir

The share/securty settings are anonymous/everyone read access only.

Under IIS I have added this directory as a Virtual Dir. It didn't show
initially. After reading some more, it seems that using HTTP, Virtual
Directories do not show. So I created a directory in my root dir to link to
the virtual directory.

So, that seems to work. Only problem is, when accessing the vdir I get a
login/password prompt come up. This is to be expect in a way, but when I
authenticate I get a server 500 error.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Pablo A. Allois]

IIS 6 ?
When you set the unc path, you can set an user to "connect as" ... check
that the user and password is ok and chek the permission to the user in the
share ( share and ntfs ).

Saludos!

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[Jeffrey Ingalls]

Thanks Pablo.

I'd like to make a quick comment on using remote storage for websites. I've
never been a fan of them. Local disks are cheap, fast and large enough and
you're only adding components that could break (network, storage device,
account used to access resources could lock out, etc). There may be cost
reasons why you are using a domain controller for a file server share for the
website but as your environment grows I would look into migrating the data
off the domain controller and closing up that file share.

All the best,
Jeffrey Ingalls

"Pablo A. Allois" wrote:

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[Pablo A. Allois]

If you are using only one webserver that's ok, and I we can say that a
fileshare add some delays and complexity to the infrastrucrture.

But when you want use more than one webserver for a single website (
implementing cluster, NLB or ARR), you need the fileshare.
All depends of the requirements.

For that post, I dont know the reason to put a fileshare, but I really dont
like to use a DC for that.

Saludos Jeffrey!

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