Re: IIS 6 Directory browsing not working like it should...?

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What is the file name? What are your default documents for the folders, web
instances, and the server as a whole?

It sounds like it's running into a "oh, this is a default document so send
it to the user".

Make sure your share is not set up in some wierd way and uses simple network
sharing and not something else.

"Spin" <Spin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gurus,

Running Windows Server 2003 SP2 with IIS 6.0. I have created a virtual
directory web site with directory browsing enabled so that users going to
the site can click on a text file (they only see one text file and it
updates automatically everyday thru another process) and either open it in
a web browser or save it to disk. Works great. In this case the file is
local to the machine.

On the very same web server, I have created another virtual directory web
site with directory browsing enabled, again with the intention that users
going to the site can click on a text file and either open it in a web
browser or save it to disk. Problem though is that the file is not
presented like it is in the first web site, when users go to this second
site the file is opened automatically by the browser...the users do not
see it sitting there nicely ready to be clicked on. The one difference
between this second web site and the first one is that the file is not
local....it is physically on a different machine. This was easy to setup,
by simply pointing the virtual directory to a remote file share. To
reiterate the problem, when users go to the second site, instead of seeing
the one file in a directory browsing list like the first site, the web
browser just opens up the file and interprets the code which I do NOT want
it to do. I simply want the users to see the file and then either
double-click on it or save it to disk. I have enabled directory browsing
on this second web site just like on the first so I can't understand why
it's not behaving like the first web site.

--
Spin


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