Re: IIS 6 from a Samba share

From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/20/05

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    Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:51:33 -0700

    Your error message is just the standard "friendly error message" that is not
    useful for debugging.

    Can you either configure IE to not show "friendly HTTP error messages" or
    lo500ok up the logfile for the website for the correspond ing entry (should
    be in %systemroot%\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC#\*.log).

    Diagnosing IIS issues is best done through its various log files and event
    log entries because it is a security risk to disclose errors to the browser
    client -- so using the browser to debug is intentionally not useful.

    You may want to browse my blog entries to get a basic understanding of IIS,
    in particular how IIS authenticates and determines the user identity used to
    execute requests -- because they are directly involved with this situation.

    If samba is all set up correctly, IIS should treat it like any other UNC
    share on a Windows machine and just automatically work. See the following
    URL on how to set it up correctly:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/webapp/iis/remstorg.mspx 

    -- 
//David
IIS
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Coen" <Coen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D083AD7D-F3D9-4657-AA0C-E733FBFEBE48@microsoft.com...
Thank you for your fast reply!
I can log on from that IIS machine to the  samba server using the account
info. Can make mappings, delete and add files, just like a regular share.
Problem starts when I use the UNC in IIS. It just refuses to work... no
error
messages are given, nothing in IIS logs, nothing in samba logs, nothing in
the event viewer, just the 500 I get in my browser.
The page cannot be displayed
There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be
displayed.
Please try the following:
    * Contact the Web site administrator to inform them that this error has
occured for this URL address.
HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Technical Information (for support personnel)
    * Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search
for the words HTTP and 500.
    * Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and
search for topics titled Web Site Administration, and About Custom Error
Messages.
    * In the IIS Software Development Kit (SDK) or at the MSDN Online
Library, search for topics titled Debugging ASP Scripts, Debugging
Components, and Debugging ISAPI Extensions and Filters.
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> You want to report the exact 500 error entry in the web log for the
> website -- in particular the Win32 error code.
>
> You also need to look at the issue from an SMB perspective. IIS is not
doing
> anything special.
>
> Have you verified from the Windows machine that you can access the SMB
using
> a specified username/password.
>
> If so, you should be able to have IIS login as that username/password to
> access the SMB share (this is an option as soon as you select the UNC
share
> as directory root). If you want Pass-thru authentication to work, you may
> need to configure more users on the SAMBA end.
>
> In short, there's nothing "special" that IIS is using nor expecting. It is
> all standard NT stuff when it comes to UNC.
>
> -- 
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> //
> "Coen" <Coen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A8A748BC-C734-4714-9EFA-A5AF8010D20F@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am working at a company who until recently only did Linux based
> webhosting. Due to increasing demand we decided to start using W2K3 to
serve
> ASP websites.
>
> Problem now is that I want to use the existing infrastructure with W2K3.
> There is a very large linux cluster which is already functioning as NAS
for
> Apache servers and I'd like IIS to connect to that. So I installed Samba
and
> created a user to connect to it and a share and I could browse the
directory
> without problems. It just goes wrong when I install the remote dir in IIS.
> Whatever I do, it always pops up with an error 500. Passwords are correct,
I
> know it's not all that, it just seems that IIS is expecting a different
kind
> of authentication too?
>
> Please help?
>
>
>
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