On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:11, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > I've asked every M$ expert I know, trolled through M$ TechNet, experimented > with SRVANY/INSTSRV login scripts which hard-code username/passwords to > login to a Samba 2.2.8a SMB server. I've experiment with and without the > "Allow service to interact with Desktop" switch turned on. > > I am stuck. :( I can find no way to mount a share as a service, so that > IIS can serve web-pages from a shared content directed located on a network > drive. > > When I run my login script when I'm logged in as the Administrator or > another user, the script works fine. The share's mounted and available as > the specified drive letter specified in the script. > > I'm using just the standard "net use" as follows: > > net use z: \\192.168.0.1\Web mypassword /user:webuser > > I've fiddled with adding a domain name to the user, to no avail. I've > experimented with using the samba server's "Netbios" name as well as DNS > name, to no avail. > > The script only seems to work when SOMEONE is logged into the machine. When > it's run as a service, no dice. It just fails with a single digit error > code (5, I think). The error is opaque and non-descriptive. It's as if SMB > mounting was specifically prohibited by the OS at some internal bowel juncture. > > This is insane. Surely, people running web-server clusters behind load > balancers don't manually synchronise their content! My web application > accepts user-uploaded files, so I can't use the "manual resync" method > anyway. The upload area needs to be shared by all web-server members. > > There must be a solution for this very common requirement. I don't want or > need a "SAN" block-device-level solution, I want a file-level solution. > > If anyone can share some ideas or experise, I would be very grateful. This > must be a solved problem somewhere. ----- Microsoft DFS (supported by Samba)
<http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/winfeatures/NTSDistrFile/AdminGuide.asp> Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
