Hi all,

I am having a little trouble configuring a new website through a shared unc
path. Here is my config:-

FTP1 - Server 2003 Web SP1 - MYDMZ (Workgroup)

d:\ftproot is shared with allowing "everyone" read permissions. The NTFS
permissions for this folder has the following permissions:-

Administrators - Full
System - Full
IUSR_FTP1 - read
iis_user - read

WEB1 - Server 2003 Web SP1 - MYDMZ (Workgroup)

I created a new website and selected shared folder on another server for the
directory path. In there I put in \\ftp1\ftproot. For the connect as
credentials I entered ftp1\iis_user with the appropriate password. Anonymous
access (iusr_web1) is enabled on this website. Inside the mmc snap-in I can
see all the files on that shared folder fine.

Now when I browse to the website, I get an internal server 500 error. I can
never get it to work. If I copy the files to a local folder on WEB1 and then
re-configure the website, everything works fine. How can I make it work with
a shared folder? What am I missing?

TIA!

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Try running FileMon (from www.sysinternals.com) which will show you what
account is failing to get access to the resources.

From what I can tell you are trying to give a local user on one server
access to resources on a different server? Is this correct?

If your servers are in a domain, have you tried providing access via a
domain service account rather than a local one?

Paul Walsh

"param@community.nospam" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having a little trouble configuring a new website through a shared un
c
> path. Here is my config:-
>
> FTP1 - Server 2003 Web SP1 - MYDMZ (Workgroup)
>
> d:\ftproot is shared with allowing "everyone" read permissions. The NTFS
> permissions for this folder has the following permissions:-
>
> Administrators - Full
> System - Full
> IUSR_FTP1 - read
> iis_user - read
>
> WEB1 - Server 2003 Web SP1 - MYDMZ (Workgroup)
>
> I created a new website and selected shared folder on another server for t
he
> directory path. In there I put in \\ftp1\ftproot. For the connect as
> credentials I entered ftp1\iis_user with the appropriate password. Anonymo
us
> access (iusr_web1) is enabled on this website. Inside the mmc snap-in I ca
n
> see all the files on that shared folder fine.
>
> Now when I browse to the website, I get an internal server 500 error. I ca
n
> never get it to work. If I copy the files to a local folder on WEB1 and th
en
> re-configure the website, everything works fine. How can I make it work wi
th
> a shared folder? What am I missing?
>
> TIA!
>
>
>

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My servers are in the same workgroup. The name of the accounts and passwords
are the same on both servers. This has worked in the past. I dont know why
it is failing.

"Paul Walsh" <PaulWalsh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EC256D64-A00B-4967-81D6-75F37F3430DB@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Try running FileMon (from www.sysinternals.com) which will show you what
> account is failing to get access to the resources.
>
> From what I can tell you are trying to give a local user on one server
> access to resources on a different server? Is this correct?
>
> If your servers are in a domain, have you tried providing access via a
> domain service account rather than a local one?
>
> Paul Walsh
>
> "param@community.nospam" wrote:
> 

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