> letters or UNC paths for your NAS? Hello Rob,
Before I took over the role of Web Development Manager, we were using mapped drives. When we released our FarCry site back in January, we moved over to using UNC paths for everything (both in IIS and CFMX) as well as upgrading all the servers to Windows 2003 and CFMX 6.1. This included any internal paths we are using in our pages to get to the file shares AND the location of the Verity collections. I submitted code that is now included in the FarCry core to allow the Verity path to be provided in the config variables so you can store your verity collections on a shared drive. We use one server to actually prepare collections - all the others have a collection that is just mapped to the same location. The main technical reason for doing using UNC (I believe) is that using UNC means that you don't rely on mappings, which means that you don't have to log the servers in (the services can - apparently - see UNC paths but not drive mappings when not logged in). The other technical point to note (and I am not the hardware guy) is that the NAS units we have need to be on a domain controller to be able to run in failover mode (we have two of them that present as one IP that share the same disk array). So we are running two of our webservers as Primary and Secondary DNS for the web cluster. Having said all of that, we are just about to split the system and provide a "live" Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity site that will use 2 Array Networks load balancers which load balance between themselves (instead of just the one we have now). It doesn't hurt if you say it quickly enough. I Hope that provides some additional detail and answers your question. Regards, Gary Menzel --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
