AW: [mapserver-users] Setting up a MAP file to use data on a networkshare [newbie I guess! :-) ]

[Arnd Wippermann]

Hello Greg,

Try to use the UNC path in the data tag
DATA "\\server\path\myshapefile.shp"

This should work. Otherwise I think, their are problems with permissions.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Arnd Wippermann
http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/



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Von: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Greg Cocks
Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 23:58
An: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Pete Humphrey
Betreff: [mapserver-users] Setting up a MAP file to use data on a networkshare [newbie I guess! :-) ]

Hello List,


I am trying to set up a MAP file to use a network share for the files that for various reasons I can’t get into PostgreSQL, etc… i.e., so that we only have one copy of the data being used internally and on the web, etc


I proceeded as follows

 - Using IIS on a Windoze box (yeah, yeah, grin) set up a virtual directory to a network share using a UNC path \\server\directory that I use all the time with ArcGIS, etc – called it wms_data

 - Added my credentials in the ‘Connect As’ in IIS

 - Used the explore in the IIS MMC and confirmed I could browse the data there

 - Confirmed that the directories had the relevant web access permissions

 - Charged the relevant line in my MAP file to → SHAPEPATH "/wms_data/"

 - Changed the layer’s data pointer to → DATA "subdirectory/sameshapefilename"


* When I now load the page it says it can’t find the layer’s data!  Ugh! *


Note that if I use a local (i.e., C:\...\...\) path for the data and in the MAP file it works just fine… Also, want to look at MrSIDs the same way, which again works just fine using a C:\ path…


Note that I know enough about IIS to be dangerous!   ☺


Thanks in advance for your help

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GREG COCKS
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