Medium Flame:Re: fPCGI vs. Windows 2003 ==>> bottom post

[Robert Haussmann]

> > So the bottom line appears to be that filePro will not work on
> > Win2K3 using fPCGI, OneGate, or any other CGI engine when 
> > accessing a non-local drive.  Unless, of course, filePro gives us
> > the option of using UNC's rather than drive letters. 
> 
> > That being said--how difficult would it be for fPTech to 
> > make the next version of filePro respect UNC's as well as drive
> > mappings?  E.g., PFDSK=\\servername\vol\directory\subdir ?
> 
> Difficult or not, I see the UNC as the way that MS is going and
> drive letters are becoming rapidly obsolete.   
> 
> 

Absolutely.  From:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/
webapp/iis/remstorg.mspx#XSLTsection125121120120

Mapped Drives Will Not Work
For security concerns, services cannot use drives mapped via the credentials
supplied by another logged on user. In IIS 5.0, you could potentially get
this to work, but it is not recommended. In Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server,
and future versions of Windows, services cannot use these mapped drives. For
more information, see this Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;180362&sd=tech

It looks like the only way this will work in XP/2003 is for filePro
to utilize UNC's.

Bob