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SirRawlins Lurker
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Mar 24, 2010 12:44 PM

IIS7 Shared Folder

Hello Guys,

 

I'm trying to setup a site in IIS7 which uses a shared folder from my Mac as it's site root. When trying to access the site from a browser IIS is giving me 500.19 errors. My guess is that this is because IIS can't properly read from the network share.

 

Do I have to grant special privileges to something? I've been googling for the past couple of hours and keep going around in circles without any proper concrete advice on how to solve the issue.

 

Many thanks,

 

Robert

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tinyfly1 Lurker
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1. Dec 10, 2010 9:00 AM in response to: SirRawlins
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

I'm wondering if you found a solution to this?

Mikero Master VMware Employees
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2. Dec 10, 2010 10:32 AM in response to: tinyfly1
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

Hi there,

 

I filed a bug regarding this issue.  (internal PR 630089)

 

Basically, IIS uses a special directory notification feature that we don't implement.  So, we have a feature request to implement this protocol, and doing so should allow IIS to work with our shared folders.

 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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3. Dec 21, 2010 1:17 PM in response to: SirRawlins
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

Seems like this is a common problem. This thread was the top result (on these forums) for my searches regarding this problem.

 

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/284583

 

I would like to know if there is someway we can be notified of when this feature is implemented. I would appreciate it if that was possible.

Mikero Master VMware Employees
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4. Dec 21, 2010 1:24 PM in response to: llbbl
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

I apologize, but we don't have a bug-fix-notification service outside of the release notes.

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5. Feb 14, 2011 12:47 PM in response to: SirRawlins
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

+1 ... Please...

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6. Jan 2, 2012 5:30 PM in response to: SirRawlins
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

Not happy about this at all... I keep most of my development sites in my OSX /home/sites folder...

Was really wanting that to be my wwwroot / IIS home...

 

Hit this issue hard....

 

It's really going to make using the same source files next to impossible.

That's me and my 5 developers. 

Luckally my server/storage guys don't do much IIS development and debugging...

@johnmharte
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7. Jan 2, 2012 6:04 PM in response to: docgoku
Re: IIS7 Shared Folder

Wow!  This actually worked... I'm running a Win7x64 vm on Fusion 4.   So, IIS7, runing under the default security accounts in services.

 

I thought, lets see if Windows can do Symbolic Links like my Linux VMs.

 

It can!

 

It's called mklink in Windows 7

I found a nice gui tool here:

http://code.google.com/p/symlinker/downloads/list

Run that .exe as Administrator... aka right click, run as Administrator.

 

I renamed my current C:\inetpub\wwwroot folder... to get it out of the way.

Then using the tool for mklink, created a new symbolic link for wwwroot that pointed to my shared folder @ \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Sites

 

IIS was happy and it even pulls up sites now!

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Ignore that crappy navigation bar... it's an IE9 thing...

@johnmharte

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