We dealt with this and although we are able to use IIS with CIFS by using UNC names and a PDC for authentication FrontPage won't work with this setup.
FrontPage will not work with UNCs and Microsoft says content has to be on local disk for the server extensions to work on NT. Microsoft has confirmed this bug and say they are going to fix it in the FrontPage 99 release (around December).
-Mike Patchen mpatchen@verio.net Verio Southern California
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Brian Tao wrote:
# Does anyone have some experience setting up an NT4/IIS 4.0 Web # server with the FrontPage extensions, using a Netapp as the data # store? According to Microsoft (and supported by our own tests), # FrontPage will *not* work to a network share. In fact, many Microsoft # server products will lose much of their functionality if they are not # run on local disks. # # I'm pretty much convinced this is an NT issue and not a Netapp one # (since we can't get FrontPage to work even when sharing a filesystem # from another NT box). What are the alternatives? NFS on NT? We # asked a Microsoft IIS engineer how MS handles the problem of # distributed servers, and his response was "Oh, we just replicate all # our data". :-/ # -- # Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) # "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" # #