Re: setting up a webshare

From: steve (steve_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:29:04 -0700

On my previous server I could be in a remote location and map a drive across
the internet. I did it via \\myip\myshare

and it created a drive that i could drop and drag folders from just like a
standard drive. can i do that with sbs2003

I tried your http// and it gave me the same results. An authentication
screen that wouldnt authenticate.

Thanks

"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" wrote:

> "steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A3F52CAE-D9FA-48B6-B738-142275C53897@microsoft.com...
> >I have a folder i'd like to make available across the internet.
> >
> > In the past, I had IIS setup on an xp machine and just turned it on and
> > it
> > started working.
> >
> > I'm trying to do the same thing on my SBS2003 machine.
> >
> > I right click on the folder I want to share, click the webshare tab, then
> > share the folder for the default website.
> >
> > Then when I go to a remote machine coneected to the internet, I map a
> > network drive to \\mydomain.com\mywebshare
> > it connects fine and displays the user authentication dialog box.
> >
> > But I cant authenticate any user. Even the administrator is rejected.
> >
> > what do i have to do to allow a user. The security tab shows
> > administrator
> > with full control and mydomain\users with read access. Why cant they
> > login?
>
> You've created a web share but you're trying to access it as a UNC file
> share. You access "web shares" by going to http://yourserver/yourwebshare/.
> (A web share is really an IIS virtual directory.)
>
> They can't logon because if you want to access it as \\servername\sharename
> with a mapped drive, you need to create a file share - which has nothing to
> do with IIS.
>
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>

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