Web access to Windows 2003 home directories

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From: Nigel Bruce (N.Bruce_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:05:47 GMT

Hello

Is it possible to use IIS 6 to give users web access to the contents of
their home directories. I want my users to be able to go to a URL in IE
(perhaps opening it as a webfolder - but not necessarily) and be able to
upload and download their personal files. I know that IIS6 supports
WebDAV but it doesn't appear to allow users access to their normal home
directory, c.f. FTP in user isolation mode.

By 'home directory' I mean the private folder for personal files that
users get when their account is created. The one stored within AD as an
attribute value. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_homedirectory.asp?
When setting up a webdav site in IIS it implies that you cna access
'home directories' but it is referring to seperate folders that have to
be setup. These are not the same as the user's normal home directory.

Compare this to FTP. With IIS you can setup an FTP site in such a way
that when users loginthey are taken straight to their home directory.
This is because IIS reads the values of two AD properties called
ms-IIS-FTP-Dir and ms-IIS-FTP-Root. By making their concatenated value
the same as their normal home directory value you can easily give your
users FTP access to their personal files.

IIS 6.0 doesn't appear to support this for WebDAV but I was hoping that
I was overlooking something.

If IIS can't do it does anyone know of any other software that would
enable me to make home directories accessible through a web broswer.

Many thanks

Nigel Bruce
PC Group Leader
Information Systems Services
University of Leeds
LEEDS, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

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