[mapserver-users] allowing MapServer access to data on another windows machine?

[Richard Greenwood]

Jukka is correct, it is an Apache problem. IIS is the same. The web server
is not allowed to access resources on the network. If your network is on a
domain then you can give the apache 'user' a domain account. It's a little
flaky but it does work. I haven't tried in a workgroup but it might be
possible to give the apache user account permissions on the other machine.
Alternatively, how about an external USB drive? Since it would be plugged
into your server it would be treated as a local resource.

Good luck,
Rich



On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I never managed to make it to work before we acquired more disks but it is
> about Apache and this is the reason
>
> " By default, all Apache services are registered to run as the system user
> (the LocalSystem account). The LocalSystem account has no privileges to
> your network via any Windows-secured mechanism, including the file system,
> named pipes, DCOM, or secure RPC. It has, however, wide privileges locally.
> "
>
> Some advice to start with is at
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Mark Volz
>
> > Hello
>
> > I am planning to reinstall windows on our main web server.  While it is
> down I am going to use an old machine.  It does not have enough hard disk
> space for all of our data.  I mapped the Z drive to a second old machine
> which will temporary hold the excess mapserver gis data.   I received an
> error " Unable to access file.
> (Z:/ms4wCache/source/Picto2011Lyon/Picto2011.shp)\nmsShapefileOpen():
> Unable to access file."
>
> > Question:  what do I need to do to allow mapserver to access data that
> is stored on another machine?
>
> thanks
>
> Mark Volz, GISP
> GIS Specialist
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