Re: IIS Home Dir on \\UNC Pathname on NAS appliance?

From: Stephen L Nicoud (nicouds@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/02 

Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:51:36 -0700
From: Stephen L Nicoud <nicouds@hotmail.com>

Keith Howells wrote:
>
> We are contemplating using a NAS appliance from EMC for
> hosting our webroots and having multiple web servers
> pointing at the same share. The configuration requires
> that our web servers belong to a NT4 domain or Win2k AD
> which we don't currently have in place. I've done a few
> tests attempting to use passthru authentication by sharing
> a webroot on another Win2k server and that seems to work
> correctly when using the connect as dialog for the home
> directory. Are there any caveats besides fetching content
> over the network to configuring a web farm in this fashion?
> Any permissions issues? I'm planning on having the
> anonymous web account on local web server and remote
> server have same username / passwords and also give
> appropriate DACLS to the webroots. Any feedback is
> appreciated.

First, this question is probably more appropriate for the IIS security
newsgroup at microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security. I've
cross-posted my response to that newsgroup and have directly follow-ups
to my message there as well.

Second, if you use Pass-Through Authentication then you do not fill in
any information in the "connect as" dialog. It doesn't really appear,
though, that you need Pass-Through Authentication. Perhaps you meant a
different term?

Third, as long as the data on the remote share should be anonymously
available to all users, then there shouldn't be a problem with your
configuration. 

-- 
Reply to the newsgroup.

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