No Images from VPN

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David C

I have an ASP.Net 2.0 page that displays images in a DataList from a virtual
directory on a different server in the domain. All works fine at a regular
workstation, but when I log in via our VPN the images do not show, only a
red X shows where the image should be. Any ideas why this happens and where
I need to look to get them to display?

Below is how I am populating the DataList.

Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

If Not Page.IsPostBack Then

Dim strpath As String = "/MyWeb/Photos/DAUCHY, JOE/RO25369"

Dim dirInfo As New DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath(strpath))


PhotoList.DataSource = dirInfo.GetFiles("*.jpg")

PhotoList.DataBind()

End If

End Sub

David
 
are you accessing images via https? obviously it's not able to find the url
for image. can u right-click on broken image and look at the url?
 
No, we are accessing images directly from server url, e.g.
\\server\share\somefile.jpg

David
 
Try using a fully-qualified server name..

\\server.yourcompany.com\share\somfile.jpg

Or better yet put the images on the web server and reference them
through http.

HTH,

Sam

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No, we are accessing images directly from server url, e.g.
\\server\share\somefile.jpg

David
Click to expand...

You *hope* to reference those images by that path. But Server.MapPath returns
an absolute path like "C:\whatever\MyWeb\Photos\DAUCHY, JOE\RO25369\".
This will work fine on the system where the image is, but not if you are
accessing
it from some other computer (whether VPN or not).
Look at the html source in the browser and try to locate the image. What
is the
URL that you find there?
You will have to translate the image path back to some path that is accessible
via IIS.

Hans Kesting
 
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