Want IIS5 ASP page to read data on another server

I am not sure if this is the right group for this, but it is at least
partially related to IIS security...

Due to a hardware failure, we have temporarily found ourselves with
insufficient storage on our main web server (W2K Server). I am trying
to configure our newer W2K3 Server, that mainly provides SQL services,
to share some of its capacity with the first server.

Although both servers are on the same domain, the domain is hosted by
a third party and I can't easily add logins to the domain. If I knew
exactly what to do, I am sure the third party would add a login to my
specifications, but I won't ask unless I am confident it will solve
our problem without creating another security problem elsewhere.

So I am trying to create a shared folder on the W2K3 server that will
grant read-only privileges to the ASP page of the W2K server. I can't
seem to find the solution. The only thing that works is to run the ASP
page as an Administrator, which is obviously not an acceptable
solution. I have tried creating identical user names with identical
passwords on both systems, hoping that password synchronization would
help. It doesn't.

I won't list all the other things I have tried, but I have run out of
ideas. Can someone suggest where I might look for a solution? Or at
least tell me it's impossible so I won't waste anymore time trying to
figure this out...

Thanks

Re: Want IIS5 ASP page to read data on another server

On Nov 23, 6:44 am, Chuck Jungmann wrote:
> I am not sure if this is the right group for this, but it is at least
> partially related to IIS security...
>
> Due to a hardware failure, we have temporarily found ourselves with
> insufficient storage on our main web server (W2K Server). I am trying
> to configure our newer W2K3 Server, that mainly provides SQL services,
> to share some of its capacity with the first server.
>
> Although both servers are on the same domain, the domain is hosted by
> a third party and I can't easily add logins to the domain. If I knew
> exactly what to do, I am sure the third party would add a login to my
> specifications, but I won't ask unless I am confident it will solve
> our problem without creating another security problem elsewhere.
>
> So I am trying to create a shared folder on the W2K3 server that will
> grant read-only privileges to the ASP page of the W2K server. I can't
> seem to find the solution. The only thing that works is to run the ASP
> page as an Administrator, which is obviously not an acceptable
> solution. I have tried creating identical user names with identical
> passwords on both systems, hoping that password synchronization would
> help. It doesn't.
>
> I won't list all the other things I have tried, but I have run out of
> ideas. Can someone suggest where I might look for a solution? Or at
> least tell me it's impossible so I won't waste anymore time trying to
> figure this out...
>
> Thanks


It is possible to do what you want, but the configuration and
requirements have to be correct. The following URL lists all the ways
as well as how/why you need to do:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver20 03/technologies/webapp/iis/remstorg.mspx


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

Re: Want IIS5 ASP page to read data on another server

Thank you for your help, David. I finally got it to work!