Re: virtual PC/Server 2003 hosting glitches...

Charles,

This is a whole different way to go, but I wanted to make certain that
you've considered it: are you using Visual Studio 2003 or 2005? If you are
using 2005 or can upgrade to 2005 then it comes with a built in webserver
application that fires up only when you are using it. It uses what is now
being called a "file system" web project and the server is only available on
the local machine. That scenario may be acceptable to your security staff
because IIS is not necessary.


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Sincerely,

S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer / Programmer

www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche
"CharlesA" <CharlesA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2C88A587-3B4E-4783-8C04-B323C3E4EAF9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi folks,
> I'll try and keep this as short as I can and have it still make sense.
>
> I'm working on a corporate locked down copy of XP, I'm not allowed to have
> IIS on this machine. this makes it somewhat hard to write ASP.net
> applications
> our IT dept came up with a workaround acceptable to their security
> standards
> We'd put Virtual PC 2004 on our machines, install windows Server 2003 (web
> edition) on it and then Visual studio on our XP machines and when we come
> to
> create a new web project we hook into the virtual server's IIS and virtual
> directories etc.
>
> I've made sure that ASP.net is enabled (i.e allowed) on the Server 2003
> IIS
>
> when I go to create a new project for ASP.net from my containing XP OS and
> point it to the 'contained' IIS server at my pre-made Virtual directory I
> get
> the following error:
>
> cannot acess 'cannot access \\YOURERVER\wwwroot$\yourVirtualDir\App1'
> eiher
> it doesn't exist or you do not have access...
>
> how could an error message not disambiguate between me
> a) not having access
> vs
> b) the path not being valid
>
> that is just so unhelpful...
>
> anyway, I seem wholly unable to create web projects/solutions on my
> virtual
> server any ideas
>
> many thanks in advance for any help
>
> Regards
> CharlesA
>
>
>
>
>


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