LAN/WAN File access

[johnweidauer]

I have a file server on my local network, then a server at a colocation, both Windows 2000 Server. I would like to allow my webserver to read/write to the file server on my LAN. Is there a reasonable solution via IIS 5, .NET through a web service, or some other sound solution?

I do have a VPN/Firewall between my LAN and WAN, maybe just a VPN Tunnel? Not sure about performance though.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thanks.

[mendhak]

Assuming it's a website, you can create a virtual directory underneath the website you are dealing with and have it pointed at the folder shared on the file server. In "Directory Security" give it the name of a domain user that you have created specifically for this purpose and give that domain user access rights to that shared folder on the file server.

[johnweidauer]

Yes, that much is easy, but what if I want to share across two different web servers on different LANs?

[mendhak]

That is still possible, it'll still work as long a user with permissions is the security context for the virtual directory. Users accessing those resources will not require access to that shared folder, nor do they need to know that it exists as IIS will process all requests and do something that is akin to a Response.WriteFile() to the browser.