Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a virtual directory on serverA to link to a directory on serverB.

What I need to be able to do, is something like this:
http://www.siteonserverA.com/somesharedDir_within_siteonserverB/somepage.html

I'm not able to hit the url directly in the browser address. says page can not be found.

I've got the virtual directory set up on the site on serverA, and the shared directory on serverB. I can see the files on serverB within the virtual dir on serverA and if I hit the page directly like:
http://www.siteonserverB.com/someDir_within_siteonserverB/somepage.html
I can see the page.

So it appears to me that I've got the permissions set correctly, but perhaps I'm missing something else here.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

Using windows2000, iis 5.0.

    If you have the virtual directory mapped to the folders on server b, all you need to do is to use a url like

    http://www.some.site.com/<virtual directory name here>/somepage.html

    If the IIS virtual directory is properly configured you'll be getting pages from the 2nd server..

      thanks for the reply.

      yeah, it's the configuration part that apparently i'm not getting right. aside from the proper IUSR_Webuser account having access, is there some other account that needs access as well? Is there some other configuration that im missing (by virtue of not having mentioned it)? Even though I can see the files on the other server from within the IIS admin too on the first server?

      thanks.

        Well, one other thing to keep in mind, IIS normally operates in a local user account context, local to just the web server, and that user account won't have permissions to the 2nd server unless you set them.

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