[mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HE LP!

[Puneet Kishor]

Chip, Richard,

Fwiw, here's what I know...

I can confirm what you have experienced... putting data on a mapped drive or
UNC named drive causes Mapserver to choke (I was using Win2k). Copying all
the data to the c: drive (where Mapserver is installed) made good.

IIS/PWS use an account called IUSR_<computername>. So, if you computer is
called mapper, an account called IUSR_mapper is automatically created, and a
random password is generated for it. This insures that anyone hitting the
webserver is able to view the website.

IIS service itself logs on as a local system account.

Look forward to what you guys figure out, because it does have ramifications
on how distributed mapplication is deployed.

pk/

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Puneet Kishor 
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www.geoanalytics.com

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hankley, Chip [mailto:Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: 'Richard Greenwood'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex 
> TileItem Location
> HE LP!
> 
> 
> Richard and I are having the same problem I think...
> 
> I'm beginning to think that on NT, your data HAS to be on a 
> local drive....
> 
> Lowell wrote:
>  >You might try dumping a simple shapefile over on the share 
> and adding it
> as
>  >a layer in your .map file.  Just to see if things on that 
> level work.
> 
> I tried this yesterday and got the same results. I used a map 
> file with one
> simple polygon layer. Did it local, worked fine, on a share, 
> didnt' work.
> 
>  >Have you tried blowing open the privs just to see if that fixes it?
> 
> This is possible, does anyone know what USER IIS or PWS acts 
> as on NT? Does
> it take on the credentials of whoever is logged in, or is it 
> something more
> obsure, like %SYSTEM?
> 
> Man, if anyone knows the definitive answer to this, please 
> speak up! This
> has some significant ramifications for how I deploy some 
> applications, and
> I'm totally stuck.
> 
> Chip Hankley
>