Thanks for your rapid reply.
Yes, I am using a domain account as the anonymous account for the web
hosting the ASP page.
Yes, the domain account has NTFS and share permissions to the remote
resource.
Yes, the IIS server is able to resolve the servername.
Yes, I can access the remote resource when logged onto the server hosting
IIS when I interactively use the domain account configured as the IIS web
anonymous account.
No, I am not receiving an error, at least not one I can find.
Here is a sample vbScript that has been tried on the ASP page that fails
silently:
If FSO.FileExists(\\remoteserver\sharename\firstfolde r\afile.XML) Then
Request.Write("exists")
Else
Request.Write("no-go")
End If
This code returns "no-go" in with the configuration described. Also, if I
map the remote share to a local drive letter the behavior persists (in the
above case the path becomes "Q:\firstfolder\afile.XML"). However if the
path is "C:\foo.xml" the code returns "exists" as desired.
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"Ray at <%=sLocation%>" <myfirstname at lane34 dot com> wrote in message
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Plain text reply:
You're using a domain account for IIS, yes?
And the domain account has NTFS and share permissions to the resource,
yes? Is the IIS server able to resolve the servername?
When you log on to the IIS server as this account that you are using for
IIS and try to access the share via UNC, can you access it?
Are you getting an error?
How are you trying to access it?
Ray at work
"Rene' Nielsen" <rn******@radiantsystems.com> wrote in message
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Context:
Running Windows 2003 Server on an intranet.
A web is configured with an anonymous access account that is a domain
account that has been granted the desired access to a file on another
server in the domain.
An asp page in the web attempts to open (or any other access) the remote
file and fails.
Auditing is enabled on the remote system and for the file in question but
no access denied records are being
recorded.
If the ASP is changed to access any file on the local server it works
(regardless of location on the server).
Question: Why?
Is there a constraint that I am unaware of that precludes access to remote
resources (via a redirector) through ASP? Or am I just missing
something obvious?
Any suggestions on how to gather additional diagnostic info on this if it
is possible?
TIA