Accessing Novell Netware volume from Windows 2003 server

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Chris Severin

Hi,

I have a page on an ASP.NET website running .NET 2.0 on a Windows 2003
server that needs to access a file on a Novell Netware 6.5 server. The
Windows 2003 server has the Novell client installed and the server itself can
see all the mapped Novell drives (they appear in the My Computer window).

However, when the webpage tries to access a file on one of the Novell
Netware volumes, it gets the message "Could not find part of a path".

Does anyone have any idea what's happening? I'll admit I'm a newbie when it
comes to IIS and web administration, so any help you can give me will be most
appreciated!

Thanks very much!

Chris.
 
Chris said:
Hi,

I have a page on an ASP.NET website running .NET 2.0 on a Windows 2003
server that needs to access a file on a Novell Netware 6.5 server. The
Windows 2003 server has the Novell client installed and the server itself can
see all the mapped Novell drives (they appear in the My Computer window).

However, when the webpage tries to access a file on one of the Novell
Netware volumes, it gets the message "Could not find part of a path".

Does anyone have any idea what's happening? I'll admit I'm a newbie when it
comes to IIS and web administration, so any help you can give me will be most
appreciated!

Thanks very much!

Chris.
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Well its just a guess but I would say its permissions problem. The
user doesn't have permission to access that area.
 
Thanks Jeanette,

Yes, it does appear to be a permissions problem, but with what I'm not sure.
The users access the web site anonymously and following the instructions I
found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q285159

,I set the anonymous user password and also got my network administrator to
set up a matching Novell user account with the same password and grant user
rights to the Novell drives that I need. This, in theory, is supposed to
synchronize the Windows user id for the anonymous access Internet guest
account with the Novell Netware login user id and the appropriate credentials
are supposed to be passed through so that the web site has access to the
Novell drives.

Well, even though I followed the instructions to the letter, I must have
done something wrong because I now get the message: "Network name not found"
when I try to access one of the Novell drives through the web site.

Progress? Maybe.
 
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