IIS 5, Windows XP & Accessing VFP Tables across the network using a COM

Hi Everyone

Looking for some help/advise to resolve the following problem.

We're running a Windows XP Pro peer-to-peer network. I have IIS 5 installed
on one of the machines and have published my web pages to the
"c:\inetpub\wwwroot" folder. The ASP pages call a registered COM, which is
written in VFP 7.0, and in order for the COM to find the tables it requires
the ASP code has to set the COM's "DataPath" property. During testing,
everything has been working fine. However, during testing the folder
containing the tables actually local and resided on the same machine as IIS.
The real data the needs to be used is on another computer on the network.
When I set the datapath property to this other networked computer (ie.
'\\DataPC\DataFolder\') the whole thing stops working! The IIS machine has
full access rights to the network computer in question, so why won't it let
me access the folder and tables?

I would be grateful for any suggestions - many thanks, Debbie

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:20:03 -0400, "Debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>We're running a Windows XP Pro peer-to-peer network. I have IIS 5 installed
>on one of the machines and have published my web pages to the
>"c:\inetpub\wwwroot" folder. The ASP pages call a registered COM, which is
>written in VFP 7.0, and in order for the COM to find the tables it requires
>the ASP code has to set the COM's "DataPath" property. During testing,
>everything has been working fine. However, during testing the folder
>containing the tables actually local and resided on the same machine as IIS.
>The real data the needs to be used is on another computer on the network.
>When I set the datapath property to this other networked computer (ie.
>'\\DataPC\DataFolder\') the whole thing stops working! The IIS machine has
>full access rights to the network computer in question, so why won't it let
>me access the folder and tables?

Does your COM accept a UNC path instead of a drive letter?

Jeff

you wont be able to use a UNC path via the http protocol. use IIS to browse
to the share where the data is and create a virtual directory. then youll
set your datapath to the virtual path. ie, www.mysite.com/virtual


"Debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone
>
> Looking for some help/advise to resolve the following problem.
>
> We're running a Windows XP Pro peer-to-peer network. I have IIS 5
installed
> on one of the machines and have published my web pages to the
> "c:\inetpub\wwwroot" folder. The ASP pages call a registered COM, which
is
> written in VFP 7.0, and in order for the COM to find the tables it
requires
> the ASP code has to set the COM's "DataPath" property. During testing,
> everything has been working fine. However, during testing the folder
> containing the tables actually local and resided on the same machine as
IIS.
> The real data the needs to be used is on another computer on the network.
> When I set the datapath property to this other networked computer (ie.
> '\\DataPC\DataFolder\') the whole thing stops working! The IIS machine
has
> full access rights to the network computer in question, so why won't it
let
> me access the folder and tables?
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions - many thanks, Debbie
>
>
>