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I'm setting up an IIS/NT4 server and am looking for suggestions. This server will be used in a classroom setting where people will be able to use Win98 workstations for Office apps, edutainment games, and web-page construction learning.
I have the NT4 Server set up with a c: system drive and a d: drive for user documents. I've setup IIS so that the 'InetPub\wwwroot' directory is shared from the d: drive. I have a login script which connects the workstations h: drive to the servers d:\users\username directory of whoever is logging in (net use h: /home) and users profile home directory set as \\server\username. This is working fine.
The people running the facility will be managing the Intranet files contained directly in 'wwwroot' and then create hyperlinks to each users respective "home-page". Then the users will be able to create their own home-page 'index.html' file and any other pages linking from that.
I first tried to create a subdirectory inside of the users home directory named 'web' and to have the Intranet homepage link out like this: [A HREF="../../users/username/web/index.html"]Link[/A]. That doesn't work evidently because it is backing up out of the 'wwwroot' directory.
Then I just created the individual users 'web' directory within the 'wwwroot' directory like this: d:\inetpub\wwwroot\users\username. Of course this works fine when hyperlinking through the pages BUT will be more difficult for the "admin" to handle when creating accounts.
If I could use my original plan of having each users 'web' directory within their 'home' directory then the admin can setup the initial user account & home directory and let the user create their own 'web' directory as desired. On the other hand if they must have their 'web' directories contained within the 'wwwroot' directory then the admin will need to create the user account, home directory share, and also an appropriate 'wwwroot\users\username' share. There might be someway to automate the creation of the 'web' share within the 'wwwroot' for each username but I believe that Win9x clients are very limited in the environment variables like %username% that they can use.
So, after all of that, if you can follow me, can any IIS/NT pro's that have dome something like this please advise.
Thank you for any suggestions.
[add] The client workstations will likely be using some FrontPage for page creation. I'm a FreeBSD/Apache/Textpad kind of person but this is a donation network system going into a community center and Windows/FrontPage were requested because even the "admin" will be learning on it.[/add]
IIS/NT pro's
That sure sure doesn't include me! :) Since you haven't received an overwhelming response, I suggest you take a look and try your question here [ntfaq.com].
Each virtual Directory will have a physical directory that corresponds to the User Logon Page. You will need to verify that the IIS Account 'IUSER' has access to these directories...
You should be able to do this easily from the IIS Service Manager
