WebDAV and DFS

hi ng,

Is it possible to share a DFS domain root through WebDAV service? How I can
do this, if it's possible?

Very Thanks
Wolfgang Friesenecker

v-wzhang
Wed Feb 23 01:57:30 CST 2005

Hi Wolfgang,

If the 'DFS domain root' can be used as a normal share path, you
should be able to publish it with WebDAV without any problem. Please
look at the article below:

221600 Working with Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) and
Web Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221600

In step 2, when you create a virtual directory in IIS, you will see:
in the property dialog, the vdir's physical path can be mapped to 'A
share located on another computer'. Type your DFS share location in
it and specify a 'Connect As' account (should be a domain account
which has proper permission on the share). Then finish the following
steps to create the webdav folder and it should work fine.

Please let me know if you meet any problem.
Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

Wolfgang
Wed Feb 23 04:05:20 CST 2005

hi,

Is this also possible in IIS 6.0 with user authentication on the share?
There is an technet article with remote storage but this article describes
only W2k3 very accurate.
we've a w2k domain with w2k3 member servers. I've tried something and I only
can see the WebDAV folder and not the link of the DFS root share.

Very thanks for your help
Wolfgang Friesenecker

""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" <v-wzhang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> If the 'DFS domain root' can be used as a normal share path, you
> should be able to publish it with WebDAV without any problem. Please
> look at the article below:
>
> 221600 Working with Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) and
> Web Folders
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221600
>
> In step 2, when you create a virtual directory in IIS, you will see:
> in the property dialog, the vdir's physical path can be mapped to 'A
> share located on another computer'. Type your DFS share location in
> it and specify a 'Connect As' account (should be a domain account
> which has proper permission on the share). Then finish the following
> steps to create the webdav folder and it should work fine.
>
> Please let me know if you meet any problem.
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> WenJun Zhang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>

v-wzhang
Thu Feb 24 00:27:15 CST 2005

Hi Wolfgang,

IIS6.0 inherits whole WebDAV functonality from IIS5.0. So yes, the
steps on IIS6.0 are almost the same. What you need to do additionally
is enabling WebDAV in IIS6.0's Web service extension folder.

"Is this also possible in IIS 6.0 with user authentication on the
share?"

Just confirm, do you mean if we also can specify a 'Connect As'
account in IIS6.0 for a UNC share virtual directory? If so, the
answer is yes.

Actually IIS also supports pass-through authentication feature: use
the authenticated user's identity to access the back-end resource on
remote share, but generally the feature only works for Basic
authentication but not NTLM(Windows integrated). So specifying a
'Connect As' account is a convenient way in common cases.

332151 IIS 6.0: Pass-Through Authentication to UNC Virtual
Directories Can Be
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=332151

Last, essentially a WebDAV directory isn't special than any normal
web directories in IIS. To set up a WebDAV virtual directory, we just
have to make the directory able to be accessed via http, i.e: can be
browsed as http://server/directory/ . Then enable something options
like 'Directory Browsing', make sure FPSE and URLScan isn't installed
on the site...etc. After that, use IE's 'Open as Web Folder' function
to test it..

Please note the IE on a fresh installed Windows 2003 doesn't include
web folder client - A 'IE cannot open the URL as web folder' may
occur. In this case, you can test from a client machine with Office
installed. The web folder client first comes from Office Web
component.

Let me know if there is anything else.
Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.