Hi David,

Well I guess I would have been loosing that $245 bet:-)  Yes, I must have
configured them just slightly differently because I got back in town form a
week a travel I read your blog and bingo in your short answer section #1 was
my answer.  I am so used to setting up IIS for my DotNet 2.0 that require
Scripts and Exe's that I setup my download page the exact same way.

"If you want to allow .exe files to be downloaded as-is to the browser, then
you must NOT have "Scripts and Executables" as Execute Permissions."

Thank you for hanging in there and getting me straight!

"David Wang [Msft]" <someone@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/ar..._
6.aspx
>
> I will bet you $245 that you did not configure the new server like the old
> server when it comes to this table of downloads. ;-) So it does not
> surprise me that the results are different. For .exe files, if you had a
> table of downloads on prior IIS servers, then if you configure IIS6 in the
> EXACT same way, you will also have a table of downloads. By default.
>
> Think about it this way -
> When you make a request to
> http://www.synergy-intl.com/support...sv8/sv8_sql.exe , how does
> IIS know to either:
> 1. send sv8_sql.exe to client as a binary stream download
> 2. execute sv8_sql.exe on server to generate response
>
> Because people DO want both types of behaviors, so IIS gives you choice.
> But now you must make sure you configure it the way you want -- and here
> is where people frequently make the wrong assumption. They assume that
> servers can read minds to magically determine the correct configuration --
> whether you want this file to be downloadable and that file to execute.
>
> Now, I think it is worth $245 for me to dispel that pipe-dream, because
> how could you believe it in the first place? ;-)
>
> I suggest reading the following:
> 1. HOWTO Troubleshoot IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/ar...
shooting.aspx
> 2. HOWTO Understand IIS Request Processing
> http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/ar...t
_2.aspx
>
> They should also lead you to the same conclusions.
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
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>
> "Chris Marsh" <cmarsh@synergy-intl.com> wrote in message
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