Having problems setting up a virtual directory on IIS6 server and accessing
remote files/folders on Netware Server (via UNC share). For background, this
Win2K3 server is a standalone IIS server in a Netware network... And I've
done this successfully in the past with no apparent issues with Win2K
server/IIS5 and Netware...

In IIS console, the folder/file icons are visible, so you would think all is
well. BUT... If you right click a file (jpg or pdf for example) and select
browse, OR type in the URL to that file in a browser, the server returns a
generic 500 error. After disabling friendly error messages', you get one of
the following errors:

The specified user does not exist.
The network name cannot be found.

IUSR account has been mirrored and given proper rights on Netware server.
IUSR is set up as the Virtual Directory 'Connect As' user and the IIS
Anonymous User, the 'always use local user to...' checkbox is Unchecked...
In all cases, the IUSR is apparently authenticating. When given login rights
and logging in as IUSR, the files are accessible, and the icons are visible
in IIS control panel.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

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.

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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