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". :-/
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" # #
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Michael Patchen wrote:
FrontPage will not work with UNCs and Microsoft says content has to be on local disk for the server extensions to work on NT.
We installed a trial version of the Intergraph NFS client for NT. Although the exported filesystems on our Netapp appear as network shares and we access them via a UNC name, IIS+FrontPage *does* seem to work quite happily in this configuration. All NFS access is mapped to uid -2 and gid -1, but there's probably something in the Intergraph client config to change that (I hope). Microsoft had initially told us that FP will not work with UNC names at all, and now we have data to the contrary.
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