Clarification: With the later versions of Data ONTAP you can leave oplocks on.

Regards,

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: Benn, Paul [mailto:paul.benn@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 2:11 PM To: 'Mathew Anderson'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: IIS and netapp in existing unix world

There are a number of NetApp customers back ending their IIS servers with filers. Make sure you disable oplocks if you are pointing more than one IIS machine to the same data on the filer. When using IIS 4.0, the recommended release of Data ONTAP is 5.3.5P2 or later.

You can configure the home directory with any user account you wish; in the lab we usually use the account that the IIS installation app creates. Just make sure it has the appropriate share level and NTFS level permissions (usually read-only for IIS). As I recall, the IUSER* account is configured without a password (I like to change that) and IIS will let you configure the home directory with an incorrect password (even though it may match when you're prompted to verify it).

You should be fine using a qtree with mixed permissions.

We just published an IIS white paper which should be helpful for initial setup. It can be found at: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3078.html

Regards,

Paul Benn Network Appliance

-----Original Message----- From: Mathew Anderson [mailto:mathew@nm.net] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:35 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: IIS and netapp in existing unix world

Hello --

I have a 740 in production in a unix environment.

I am looking forward to using this as a backend server for my NT web farm. I created a qtree and set it with mixed permissions (I also would like to set my linux web farm up and mount the same partitions).

The problem that I am having is that IIS 4, (on NT4-sp6a) gives the error:

Unable to enumerate files and directories because the following error occurred: Access is denied

for the home directory setting, I am using a network directory and connecting to the share.

I can do the a net view \machine without a problem.

An additional question is, what user should I be connecting as? and with unix permissions set for the volume (and mixed for the qtree) should there be a problem with IIS looking at the mount?

I can mount the filesystem without a problem.

Thanks for any help.

Mathew Anderson Systems Administration NM Technet Oso Grande Technologies, Inc. mathew@nm.net mathew@osogrande.net