RE: Virtual Directory mapped to Netware server in IIS6 fails

17 Mar 2005 10:20 PM

Bill

Did you ever find a resolution to this problem? I am having the exact same
problem, but I'm trying to access data on a Win2k server. I can see the
folders and files in IIS, but they will not display just as you've noted.

B

18 Mar 2005 4:59 AM

Tom Murphy

Bill,

Yes and no. We also had this problem with a Win2k server, but after setting
up IUSR as app pool identity, anonymous user, and virt dir 'connect as' user,
the problem went away (apparently there has to be some sort of 'continuity'
of authentication, even though the different users that were configured had
proper permissions). No clue.

I did get a response in iis.general, but it didn't help resolve the problem
with a Netware server. I did find a workaround though. For this particular
IIS6 box, we were able to configure it to run in 'IIS 5.0 Isolation Mode'.
This changes the user contexts back to the way they were in IIS5 (IUSR/IWAM
instead of Network Service). No problems after that.

I'm pretty sure there's a bug somewhere in IIS6 regarding UNC authentication
for virtual directories as I'm pretty sure I had everything set up properly,
but no one in iis.general has responded in a month or so, so unfortunately we
may never know...

HTH.

Tom

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"Bill" wrote:

> Did you ever find a resolution to this problem? I am having the exact same
> problem, but I'm trying to access data on a Win2k server. I can see the
> folders and files in IIS, but they will not display just as you've noted.
>
> B

18 Mar 2005 11:15 AM

Bill

Would you mind linking to that post so that I might read it as well? Thanks
for the reply. I'll give those things you mentioned a shot today.
Seriously, I was considering going back to Win2k if necessary.

B

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"Tom Murphy" wrote:

> I did get a response in iis.general, but it didn't help resolve the problem
> with a Netware server. I did find a workaround though. For this particular

18 Mar 2005 2:33 PM

Tom Murphy

Bill,

here ya go:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.inetserver.iis&mid=b467bfc2-4a7f-4f34-bcb2-b5bf0cbcfc90

If that link doesn't work, its under Windows Server - IIS - IIS General
(search for 'Netware')

Tom

18 Mar 2005 5:17 PM

Bill

We got "read" working from the remote virtual directory. We did this by
creating a specific user account for this purpose. It's username/passwords
are synchronized. For whatever reason it won't work if you try to use an
account that exists on the remote computer, but not on the local computer.
Go figure. Anyway, I haven't tried "write" access yet so that ball is still
up in the air.

Thanks for the reply!

B