IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 31.10.2007 19:36:01 von batkins

We are in the process of trying to move over 100 web sites from a pair of
clustered computers (where the sites are stored on a local SAS drive (J:) to
that computer) to a pair of NLB "clustered" computers using a mapped J: drive
that points to the share on the cluster of servers.

We have exported the web site configurations and imported them into the NLB
server's IIS Web Sites.

Everything appeared fine with them until I tried to manually enter a web
site into the NLB computer that resides on the same drive as the imported
ones and I could not point the home directory to anything on the mapped drive.

As soon as you navigate to the mapped drive and select anything on that
drive in the file list box, the OK button is no longer enabled, so we can not
select anything on the J: drive.

If we try and access the browse buttons from any of the imported web sites
on the mapped network drive, the file list opens to the desktop instead of
the folder shown in the Home Directory box, like it does when it can resolve
the reference and then reacts the same way when you select anything on the
mapped drive.

HELP Please

Thanks in advance for any help you may give us.

Re: IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 01.11.2007 03:57:02 von David Wang

On Oct 31, 11:36 am, batkins
wrote:
> We are in the process of trying to move over 100 web sites from a pair of
> clustered computers (where the sites are stored on a local SAS drive (J:) to
> that computer) to a pair of NLB "clustered" computers using a mapped J: drive
> that points to the share on the cluster of servers.
>
> We have exported the web site configurations and imported them into the NLB
> server's IIS Web Sites.
>
> Everything appeared fine with them until I tried to manually enter a web
> site into the NLB computer that resides on the same drive as the imported
> ones and I could not point the home directory to anything on the mapped drive.
>
> As soon as you navigate to the mapped drive and select anything on that
> drive in the file list box, the OK button is no longer enabled, so we can not
> select anything on the J: drive.
>
> If we try and access the browse buttons from any of the imported web sites
> on the mapped network drive, the file list opens to the desktop instead of
> the folder shown in the Home Directory box, like it does when it can resolve
> the reference and then reacts the same way when you select anything on the
> mapped drive.
>
> HELP Please
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you may give us.

I suggest changing to use the UNC filename to reference the files
instead of hardcoded J:

Otherwise, you will have to figure out how to map the NLB server share
to J: in all user accounts used by IIS to execute your websites. There
is no option to map a network share to a drive letter for all users.

This is different than the local SAS drive which is already mounted
with J: and available to all local users.

//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Re: IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 01.11.2007 10:16:34 von David Wang

Re: IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 01.11.2007 17:08:02 von batkins

Thanks for the quick response.

That is the ansert I was looking for.

The thing that makes it counterintuituve is that there is not way to browse
unc network drives. I thought that if I should use that method, I should be
able to browse out and get them.

all I have to do now, is to copy the unc part from Explorer and paste it
over the J: in the directory path and I should be good to go with the
transfered ones.

It would be nice to browse for the new sites I am going to have to create
going forward.

Thanks again David

BA
--
Bill Atkins

"David Wang" wrote:

> On Oct 31, 11:36 am, batkins
> wrote:
> > We are in the process of trying to move over 100 web sites from a pair of
> > clustered computers (where the sites are stored on a local SAS drive (J:) to
> > that computer) to a pair of NLB "clustered" computers using a mapped J: drive
> > that points to the share on the cluster of servers.
> >
> > We have exported the web site configurations and imported them into the NLB
> > server's IIS Web Sites.
> >
> > Everything appeared fine with them until I tried to manually enter a web
> > site into the NLB computer that resides on the same drive as the imported
> > ones and I could not point the home directory to anything on the mapped drive.
> >
> > As soon as you navigate to the mapped drive and select anything on that
> > drive in the file list box, the OK button is no longer enabled, so we can not
> > select anything on the J: drive.
> >
> > If we try and access the browse buttons from any of the imported web sites
> > on the mapped network drive, the file list opens to the desktop instead of
> > the folder shown in the Home Directory box, like it does when it can resolve
> > the reference and then reacts the same way when you select anything on the
> > mapped drive.
> >
> > HELP Please
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help you may give us.
>
>
> I suggest changing to use the UNC filename to reference the files
> instead of hardcoded J:
>
> Otherwise, you will have to figure out how to map the NLB server share
> to J: in all user accounts used by IIS to execute your websites. There
> is no option to map a network share to a drive letter for all users.
>
> This is different than the local SAS drive which is already mounted
> with J: and available to all local users.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>

Re: IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 01.11.2007 18:24:25 von David Wang

You can browse with just the UNC part. That's what I do all the time.
I do not understand what you mean by you cannot browse UNC network
drives.

My machine just has one drive letter, C. I have multiple hard drives
in the machine, but I use NTFS and Junction points to mount them into
the C-drive namespace. I use many UNC fileshares, and I never map any
of them to drive letters. All this is built into Windows.

Don't get too attached to drive letters. :-) It is a bad habit from
the ancient days of MSDOS.

//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

On Nov 1, 9:08 am, batkins wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> That is the ansert I was looking for.
>
> The thing that makes it counterintuituve is that there is not way to browse
> unc network drives. I thought that if I should use that method, I should be
> able to browse out and get them.
>
> all I have to do now, is to copy the unc part from Explorer and paste it
> over the J: in the directory path and I should be good to go with the
> transfered ones.
>
> It would be nice to browse for the new sites I am going to have to create
> going forward.
>
> Thanks again David
>
> BA
> --
> Bill Atkins
>
>
>
> "David Wang" wrote:
> > On Oct 31, 11:36 am, batkins
> > wrote:
> > > We are in the process of trying to move over 100 web sites from a pair of
> > > clustered computers (where the sites are stored on a local SAS drive (J:) to
> > > that computer) to a pair of NLB "clustered" computers using a mapped J: drive
> > > that points to the share on the cluster of servers.
>
> > > We have exported the web site configurations and imported them into the NLB
> > > server's IIS Web Sites.
>
> > > Everything appeared fine with them until I tried to manually enter a web
> > > site into the NLB computer that resides on the same drive as the imported
> > > ones and I could not point the home directory to anything on the mapped drive.
>
> > > As soon as you navigate to the mapped drive and select anything on that
> > > drive in the file list box, the OK button is no longer enabled, so we can not
> > > select anything on the J: drive.
>
> > > If we try and access the browse buttons from any of the imported web sites
> > > on the mapped network drive, the file list opens to the desktop instead of
> > > the folder shown in the Home Directory box, like it does when it can resolve
> > > the reference and then reacts the same way when you select anything on the
> > > mapped drive.
>
> > > HELP Please
>
> > > Thanks in advance for any help you may give us.
>
> > I suggest changing to use the UNC filename to reference the files
> > instead of hardcoded J:
>
> > Otherwise, you will have to figure out how to map the NLB server share
> > to J: in all user accounts used by IIS to execute your websites. There
> > is no option to map a network share to a drive letter for all users.
>
> > This is different than the local SAS drive which is already mounted
> > with J: and available to all local users.
>
> > //David
> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > //- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Re: IIS 6.0 Map drives on NLB cluster

am 02.11.2007 19:20:16 von Rick Barber

To add to what David said, sometimes you have to 'kick start' it from some
dialog boxes, such as typing in \\192.168.22.100\fileshare\ and then you
click browse after that and it starts looking from that point on the UNC
share.

--
Rick Barber

http://www.orcsweb.com
Managed Complex Hosting
#1 in Service and Support

"David Wang" wrote in message
news:1193937865.833166.167600@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com.. .
> You can browse with just the UNC part. That's what I do all the time.
> I do not understand what you mean by you cannot browse UNC network
> drives.
>
> My machine just has one drive letter, C. I have multiple hard drives
> in the machine, but I use NTFS and Junction points to mount them into
> the C-drive namespace. I use many UNC fileshares, and I never map any
> of them to drive letters. All this is built into Windows.
>
> Don't get too attached to drive letters. :-) It is a bad habit from
> the ancient days of MSDOS.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 9:08 am, batkins wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> That is the ansert I was looking for.
>>
>> The thing that makes it counterintuituve is that there is not way to
>> browse
>> unc network drives. I thought that if I should use that method, I should
>> be
>> able to browse out and get them.
>>
>> all I have to do now, is to copy the unc part from Explorer and paste it
>> over the J: in the directory path and I should be good to go with the
>> transfered ones.
>>
>> It would be nice to browse for the new sites I am going to have to create
>> going forward.
>>
>> Thanks again David
>>
>> BA
>> --
>> Bill Atkins
>>
>>
>>
>> "David Wang" wrote:
>> > On Oct 31, 11:36 am, batkins
>> > wrote:
>> > > We are in the process of trying to move over 100 web sites from a
>> > > pair of
>> > > clustered computers (where the sites are stored on a local SAS drive
>> > > (J:) to
>> > > that computer) to a pair of NLB "clustered" computers using a mapped
>> > > J: drive
>> > > that points to the share on the cluster of servers.
>>
>> > > We have exported the web site configurations and imported them into
>> > > the NLB
>> > > server's IIS Web Sites.
>>
>> > > Everything appeared fine with them until I tried to manually enter a
>> > > web
>> > > site into the NLB computer that resides on the same drive as the
>> > > imported
>> > > ones and I could not point the home directory to anything on the
>> > > mapped drive.
>>
>> > > As soon as you navigate to the mapped drive and select anything on
>> > > that
>> > > drive in the file list box, the OK button is no longer enabled, so we
>> > > can not
>> > > select anything on the J: drive.
>>
>> > > If we try and access the browse buttons from any of the imported web
>> > > sites
>> > > on the mapped network drive, the file list opens to the desktop
>> > > instead of
>> > > the folder shown in the Home Directory box, like it does when it can
>> > > resolve
>> > > the reference and then reacts the same way when you select anything
>> > > on the
>> > > mapped drive.
>>
>> > > HELP Please
>>
>> > > Thanks in advance for any help you may give us.
>>
>> > I suggest changing to use the UNC filename to reference the files
>> > instead of hardcoded J:
>>
>> > Otherwise, you will have to figure out how to map the NLB server share
>> > to J: in all user accounts used by IIS to execute your websites. There
>> > is no option to map a network share to a drive letter for all users.
>>
>> > This is different than the local SAS drive which is already mounted
>> > with J: and available to all local users.
>>
>> > //David
>> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
>> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
>> > //- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>