Re: IIS 6 from a Samba share

From: Coen (Coen_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:23:04 -0700

These are the only error messages I can find in IIS

2005-09-20 10:16:42 W3SVC87257621 **IP removed** GET / - 80 - 217.115.203.44
Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.7.10)+Gecko/20050716+Firefox/1.0.6 500 16 1326
2005-09-20 10:16:42 W3SVC87257621 **IP removed** GET /favicon.ico - 80 -
217.115.203.44
Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.7.10)+Gecko/20050716+Firefox/1.0.6 500 16 1326
2005-09-20 10:16:42 W3SVC87257621 **IP removed** GET /favicon.ico - 80 -
217.115.203.44
Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.7.10)+Gecko/20050716+Firefox/1.0.6 500 16 1326
2005-09-20 10:20:21 W3SVC87257621 **IP removed** GET / - 80 - 217.115.203.44
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
500 16 1326

"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:

> 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.
> //
> "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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