Re: Shared Drive and Sharepoint

That is exactly what I was trying to accomplish, I was close though. Although
I could access it the same way as setting it up with your description. The
Administrtor's Companion does not differentiate between web sharing on
default Website or Companyweb and why. Thanx for your help.




"Costas" wrote:

All this time we have been talking about two different things. Anyway...
This is what you have to do....

a. Under 'Web Sharing' select the 'companyweb' web site, not the 'Default
Web Site'
b. Edit Properties and give it 'Directory Browsing' and 'Read' permissions
c. Go to 'Administrative Tools' | 'SharePoint Central Administration'
d. Under 'Virtual Server Configuration' click ' Configure virtual server
settings'
e. Click on 'companyweb'
f. Under Virtual Server Management click on 'Define Managed Paths'
g. Next to 'Add a New Path' type the name of the folder you shared earlier,
click on 'Exclude Path' and click "OK"
h. Go to the main page in companyweb and add a link to:
https://companyweb:444/<sharedfolder>


That should do it. Your users can type: https://server.domain.com:444, log
in and access the Shared Folder. Sometimes describing the issue in detail
helps. ;-)

--
Costas


"techieg" <techieg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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FYI: You will be required to log in with your AD credentials to access the
shared folders remotely over the https:// as well. So I would say its
secure.

"techieg" wrote:

I might have gotten it to work. After enabling Web Sharing on the folder
and
setting it to be shared on Default Website, make sure you enable
Directory
Browsing. go to your browser, and enter
https://ServerDomainName.com/Shared
Folder,

To view the shared folders, open Server Management, expand Internet
Information Services, expand ServerName(Local Machine), expand Web Sites,
and
select Default Web Site. You will now see all the folders you have
enabled
web sharing for. So I guess the next thing is to create links for them on
the
internal website.



"Costas" wrote:

Just to help you clarify a couple of things, "intranet" is a network
based
on he TCP/IP protocol that belongs to an organization but it has
restrictions as to who can access it. Think of it as a "mini"
Internet.
Within the company, the "intranet" works the same way as the "Internet"
works.

When a user is accessing the "intranet" via VPN, his/her computer
becomes
part of the "Intranet" , and the protocols allow the computer to
identify
and access resources (that's why the links will work). If a uses now
uses
the "Internet" (http://server.domain.com) to access an "intranet"
resource
(\\server\share) , the public" Internet" protocols do not know anything
about the "Intranet" resource, other than the one that is publicly
available
(http://server.domain.com)

I don't know if that clarifies things a bit.

--
Costas


"techieg" <techieg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought "intranet" is a website for internal employees/users only,
regardless of how it is accessed (locally or remotely) but not
available
to
the general public or search engines. Anyway, I am back to square
zero in
my
quest to effectively use web sharing to make shared folders available
via
sharepoint/companyweb.



"Costas" wrote:

I don't have the R2 version of the book, so I can't see what you
read,
mine
is the first edition, but the 'keyword' was in your post:
"Sharing....on
the
'intranet' "

If you do what I recommended, you'll access the files on the
"Intranet".
But it won't work from the "Internet" (unless you VPN to the server)

--
Costas


"techieg" <techieg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are you saying that it is not possible to access shared folders
via
sharepoint?

In the Windows SBS 2003 R2 Administrator's Companion (Microsoft
Press)
in
Chapter 19 (page 499) it talks about Using Web Sharing, where it
describes
sharing SBS server folders on the intranet but it does not talk
about
how
to
map to it or access it. I have done the web sharing setup but just
cannot
find a way to link to it due to lack of such information in the
book.
Any
ideas?

Thanx.



"Costas" wrote:

Each technology has it's own architecture and the users have to
follow
the
rules of that architecture. SharePoint stores documents in a
database.
File
Shares store documents on the file system. Two different
architectures.

If you want your users to access documents via SharePoint, I
would
suggest
you create document libraries and move them from the file system
to
these
libraries. Adding a link that points to a shared folder will work
if
they
users connect via VPN, in which case the <servername> in the UNC
path
will
resolve, but that's not the "right" way to do it.

--
Costas


"techieg" <techieg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That is what I thought about using the local UNC path to the
shared
drive.
Local users don't need the link. It is mainly meant for remote
users
to
be
able to access the shared drive on sharepoint because sometimes
they
have
issues on VPN; sometimes when they are at home the VPN connects
but
Outlook
and the shared drive do not connect. So I am looking for a way
to
also
make
the shared drive available to them via sharepoint.

Thanx.





"Costas" wrote:

The link won't work for remote users because the 'sbssrv' name
won't
resolve. You have to explain what exactly you were trying to
do .
If
the
users connect to the web site over VPN it will, but I think
you are
using
http://companyweb:444 In this case it won't work.

As far as the new link changing the root for other links, that
doesn't
make
sense, unless we aren't talking about the same thing. Each
link is
an
individual entry, independent from the other links. There is
no
default
value. In the first page of companyweb, top right, there is a
list
of
"Links". These "Links" are a SharePoint list which you can
access
if
you
click on the "Links" header. Each entry can be individually
edited.

If I misunderstood please explain further

--
Costas


"techieg" <techieg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Costas,

I did create a new link and set it to \\sbssrvr\share , it
did
not
work
for
remote users and it completely affected other links such
that
they
do
not
open anymore because they all adopted the \\sbssrvr\ in the
UNC
name
used
in
the new link instead of the default set by sharepoint.

While logged unto your SBS server locally as Administrator
(not
remotely),
under Links, can you please click on Edit on any of your
links
and
tell
me
what the default value is? Or how can I return it to default
value?

Thanx.



"Costas" wrote:

A link to a shared folder is different than a link to a
document
library
and
their permissions are handled differently. You can' use
SharePoint
permission levels to control access to network folders.
For
network
folders
you'll have to use 'Share' and 'NTFS' permissions.

If you want to create a link to a page so that your users
can
find
their
way
to the network folder, under "Links" (assuming you use
'companyweb')
click
'Add new link" and specify the network path in UNC format
(e.g
\\Server\Share )

--
Costas


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