>Hi,
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>I need to install Web API (based on .NET framework) on customer server. Currently the server is used as a repository/share for a VFP application. When I asked the customer IT to enable IIS on the server, he wrote:
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>the server is just a network share where the app files are stored. That file share is provided by Samba running on a Linux server
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>I know nothing about Samba and Linux. So my questions is, based on his answer, would the server have an IIS option that could be enabled?

Not directly, no. IIS runs exclusively on Windows OSs, it won't run natively on Linux.

If they have a virtualized environment you could ask them to spin up a suitable Windows Server VM. If they don't have a license they can still download and run it for 120 days for evaluation purposes, then purchase a license if they want to use it beyond that.

If they have a spare Windows machine lying around they could use that, as long as it supports IIS. The server versions all do, some workstation versions might as well but I don't know if that's advisable.

If it's a small operation and they're using a Linux-based NAS as a file server, they may not have any Windows server infrastructure at all, so asking them to set up a Windows VM or physical machine could be a bit onerous.

That might be a business opportunity for you. If a customer can't easily provide the Windows infrastructure you need, offer them a cloud equivalent and bill them $X per month.