Puzzled at this Virtual Directory Error....

I just upgraded to XPSP2 Pro and ran into a problem that didn't exist with
W2K/II5.

I have my project in an "encrypted drive" which I mount after starting
Windows. Now, however, IIS5.1 puts a red "ERROR" symbol next to the virtual
directory with the status column of "The system cannot find the path
specified."

If I right click on the virtual directory and select Explore or Open, it
takes me to that folder (as it should) . However, when selecting the Browse,
I get "the page cannot be found" error.

If I copy my project and put it on my hard drive outside of the mounted
drive and remap the virtual drive for the new location, the red error symbol
goes away and the error page does not occur when Browsing.

Does anyone have a clue as to what XP might me doing? Is this a "security
feature" in XP?

Thanks.

--Lenard

Kristofer
Sun Oct 03 14:04:09 CDT 2004

Hello,

You cannot map the network drive. You need to use UNC paths.

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.ilopia.com


"lenardd" <lenardd__nospam__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I just upgraded to XPSP2 Pro and ran into a problem that didn't exist with
> W2K/II5.
>
> I have my project in an "encrypted drive" which I mount after starting
> Windows. Now, however, IIS5.1 puts a red "ERROR" symbol next to the
virtual
> directory with the status column of "The system cannot find the path
> specified."
>
> If I right click on the virtual directory and select Explore or Open, it
> takes me to that folder (as it should) . However, when selecting the
Browse,
> I get "the page cannot be found" error.
>
> If I copy my project and put it on my hard drive outside of the mounted
> drive and remap the virtual drive for the new location, the red error
symbol
> goes away and the error page does not occur when Browsing.
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what XP might me doing? Is this a "security
> feature" in XP?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Lenard
>
>

lenardd
Sun Oct 03 15:04:03 CDT 2004

Hi Kristofer,

Well, it is not a network drive:

"....when you mount a VDisk, you tell Windows to treat the VDisk file as a
new hard disk, so it appears in explorer as another hard drive. Once mounted
you can copy files to it, run programs from it, you can even set permissions
and compression attributes of it's NTFS format."

Sounds to me like it looks to XP as one nevertheless....and not a harddrive.

--Lenard

"Kristofer Gafvert" <kgafvert@NEWSilopia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> You cannot map the network drive. You need to use UNC paths.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
> http://www.ilopia.com
>
>
> "lenardd" <lenardd__nospam__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eEQ$dbXqEHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> I just upgraded to XPSP2 Pro and ran into a problem that didn't exist
>> with
>> W2K/II5.
>>
>> I have my project in an "encrypted drive" which I mount after starting
>> Windows. Now, however, IIS5.1 puts a red "ERROR" symbol next to the
> virtual
>> directory with the status column of "The system cannot find the path
>> specified."
>>
>> If I right click on the virtual directory and select Explore or Open, it
>> takes me to that folder (as it should) . However, when selecting the
> Browse,
>> I get "the page cannot be found" error.
>>
>> If I copy my project and put it on my hard drive outside of the mounted
>> drive and remap the virtual drive for the new location, the red error
> symbol
>> goes away and the error page does not occur when Browsing.
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue as to what XP might me doing? Is this a "security
>> feature" in XP?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --Lenard
>>
>>
>
>