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• 07-14-2009, 10:03 AM

  anurag.sable Joined on 07-01-2009, 11:04 AM Posts 5	How to Configure IIS on a mapped drive Reply Contact Hi All, My IIS is on Computer A. My data is on Computer B. How can I setup my IIS for using t Mapped directory on computer B. Actually Viewing of file is fine but my applicationis is going to write lot of Excel files to that mapped directory on computer B. My worries are permissions. Can anybody tell me how to setup this thing?

• 07-14-2009, 10:48 AM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 5:41 AM UK Posts 1,247	Re: How to Configure IIS on a mapped drive Reply Contact Hi, Read the online documentation here : UNC Authentication in IIS 6.0 (IIS 6.0) Regards, Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 07-14-2009, 10:49 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,232

  Re: How to Configure IIS on a mapped drive Reply Contact You need to share the data folder on computer B and then access it on computer A as a UNC path - \\servername\sharename.  Mapped drives do not work for IIS. Here's a discussion in great detail: http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/archive/2009/04/28/deploying-and-configuring-internet-information-services-iis-6-0-with-remotely-stored-content-on-unc-servers-and-nas-devices.aspx Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 07-14-2009, 1:49 PM

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  anurag.sable Joined on 07-01-2009, 11:04 AM Posts 5	Re: How to Configure IIS on a mapped drive Reply Contact The discussion in great details is really very good. Thanks a lot tomkmvp.