The Apache documentation certainly recommends against granting network access to the local System account. I don't know why MS thought to add that bit -- maybe they were just being thorough.
As for my other remark, it was a bit confused -- sorry. From experience I know that I can't get a resource from a file server using an http protocol. That is, <a href="http://other_machine/directory/myfile.txt";>My file</a> won't work unless other_machine has an http service running. Likewise, <a href="file://other_machine/directory/myfile.txt">My file</a> won't work, at least not for a W3C compliant browser, because the file: protocol is not supposed to allow access over a network. This is where I think IE bends the rules. I haven't tried either formulation lately though. To answer your earlier question about the error message I was seeing, it appears in the browser, and it reads (for example): "The requested URL /library/Documentation/Doc_home.html was not found on this server." -----Original Message----- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 7, 2007 22:49 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache, Windows XP, and mapped drives Jim Owens wrote: > > "However, drive letters that are mapped from a service that is running under the local System account are visible to all logon sessions." WTH? That's nonsense since MS strongly recommends against EVERY granting the LocalSystem account any network privileges at all. > Microsoft also recommends using a UNC, but in my case this doesn't work. The resources I'm mapping are on a file server, not an http server, and when I request them directly from the file server using the http protocol, I don't get them. Not in Firefox anyway -- I think IE might bend the rules here. Huh? > Alias /myuncpath "//server1.example.com/folder1/folder2/youruncpath" > > <Directory "//server1.example.com/folder1/folder2/youruncpath" ... doesn't refer to an http server! server1.example.com, or simply server1, is the windows share machine, and folder1 is the share on server1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
