Host OS Shared Folder as IIS Home Directory

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visvam

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I recently installed IIS on Windows XP within Parallels but have been unable to set the home directory to my Mac's shared Sites folder. I followed some instructions on an old thread but keep getting "The path is not a UNC path," when using \\.PSF\Sites as the Network Directory. I would appreciate any advice on how I can get this working.

Thanks.
 
Bump... anyone gotten this to work. All the other posted solutions worked for 1 person but not the other.

I can get IIS to recognize my shared folder within IIS - but when I try an hit it from a web browser I'm getting permissions errors.
 
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Add me to the list of people needing this to work. I have IIS running in Parallels, and can serve a directory located on the C: drive, but if I map a drive to a .psf folder and try to serve that, it gives me errors (looks to be permission problems).

It would be a tremendous help to get this working, so if anyone can offer any suggestions or point me to other posts, that'd be great.

Glen
 
Add me to the list of folks unable to get IIS to serve web pages from a Shared Folder. Here is my setup:

1. I share a subfolder of my Sites folder on the Mac as the Z: drive in a Win2000 image.
2. In order to set the home directory of an IIS site to the Z: drive, I have to actually type in "Z:\" as the home path (using the browse button doesn't work as it sets the path to "\\" after selecting the z: drive.
3. When I access pages in my browser, I often get the following error:

HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource
Internet Information Services

What's weird is that the problem is intermittent. Sometimes I can get all the pages, sometimes not.

Since z: is a network drive, Win2K considers it a FAT32 drive, for which it cannot apply a security policy. So, why would IIS not have permission to access a file that the OS cannot (in principle) attach an ACL to?

For what its worth, I am using the above setup to work on a ColdFusion site using MS SQL Server. I want the shared drive so that I can develop on the Mac side (TextMate and CyberDuck) and test pages on the Mac side (Firefox and Safari).

Any help would be much appreciated.

-r
 
FYI - I have gotten around this by doing the following:

1. In XP I create a shared folder of my WWWRoot dir
2. In OS X I goto Go > Connect to server and connect to XP using smb://xx.xxx.xx.x
3. I then mount WWRoot to my desktop.

I can then develop locally in Dreamweaver and view the changes in IE on IIS.
 
I get write permission errors when I do this. I would rather have the files stored on the Mac side rather than within the Virtual Machine...for many reasons, but primarily so I can use multiple VM's and work more easily with Subversion (I prefer svnX over TortoiseSVN).
 
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Just wondering if anyone has an update to this issue? Developing is becoming a real pain (copying the files to the VM, developing, then copying back, rinse and repeat).

Thanks,
Glen
 
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