>Hello,
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>I am having trouble with virtual directories. We have IIS 4 and it is connected to a Novell network. My task is to write VFP 6 dlls to do some data gathering.
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>I have a web site on c:\website on the NT server.
>The data I want is located on on the NT Drive I: but on a novell server. (\\Idata\)
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>When I set up a virtual directory under the alias "Data", I am able to view it in the web browser. (http://123.45.67.89/data).
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>I can not seem to access the directory in the VFP dll. Is the location in the dll supposed to be c:\website\data or should I use the I: drive that NT can see? I have tried both but with no success.
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>I am not sure if this is a problem with NT and Novell working together.
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>Thanks,
>Dave

I think you are running into a permissions problem here (because the VFP app is running with the IUSR_machinename user permissions.

To test if this is the problem, add the IUSR_machinename user to the Administrators group on your test machine. If things work, then this is a permissions issue. Don't forget to remove the IUSR_machinename account from administrators after testing!

Rick Strahl has covered these issues in a couple of the white papers available on his excellent web site www.west-wind.com