On further review with the IT department, it turns out our IIS server wasn't set up quite as expected. The anonymous web user had access to .html and .txt files, but not other file types, and only through http paths (not UNC). If it's of any interest, I was able to use some resources in mapserver by specifying the full http:// path to the file. This worked for the template, and DrawRaster seems like it would have worked if not for an unrelated problem, but DrawSHP wanted to append the http path onto the local web directory path.
Once IT got the permissions sorted out, everything works. Thanks to the people who responded with suggestions. -Gabe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emerson, Gabe Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:19 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] Network / UNC access problems Hello everyone, Once again I have an issue that's apparently been solved before, but doesn't work for me. Hopefully this is an ability that Mapserver still retains. I'm trying to access network resources (in an IIS environment) from mapserver. The IT people have set up the web server with a domain account, and given it access to the relevant network drives (it's Intranet only, inside our firewall). They've also set up some virtual folders pointing to the network locations, and put those into the mapserver directory. The web server has no problem accessing the files, I can browse to the data through it (as in "domain.com/aeimagery/minr2c2.ecw". However, Mapserver's CGI isn't able to access the data. I've tried using the standard UNC path: DATA "\\server\aeimagery\minr2c2.ecw" I've also tried using the local shortcuts that IT set up, as in: DATA "../AEImagery/MINr2c2.ecw" And as the full web server path: DATA "D:/inetpub/gis/AEImagery/MINr2c2" I've tried /, \, all lowercase, etc. I've also confirmed that local copies of the aerials and shapefiles work. For aerials I simply get nothing to appear. For shapefiles I get the usual: msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to draw layer named 'Metro_Area'. msSHPOpenFile(): Unable to access file. (\\server\data\research\esri\county) msSHPOpenFile(): Unable to access file. (\\server\data\research\esri\county) Since I'm not in control of the server config, I can't guarantee that everything in IIS is set up correctly. IT tells me that the webserver process is a domain user, and they've seen the prior mailing list posts on this topic. Since I can access the virtual folders that point at the network resources, I assume the server and its processes have the proper access. At this point I'm stumped as to what else is necessary, or what else I can ask IT to test for. Any suggestions would be appreciated! -Gabe Emerson _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
