We have shares on servers that we need to publish on our corporate SharePoint, so they need to be accessible via HTTP. We also want Users to be prompted for their Domain credentials when they access these shares. All the servers are members of the same domain.
We have no problems on our current IIS6 web server, where we have the shares defined as Virtual Directories pointing to UNCs, but we are mandated to get off that one ASAP.
At first, nothing worked at all. Then we found a thread which spoke to Enabling Windows Authentication and prioritizing NTLM over Negotiate, which we did. However, although we were clearly able to access the content in IElocally, we still were not able to actually browse it from IEremotely. It would repeatedly prompt for NAM UserID and password andnever get through.
Then we found that even this was true for only one of our shares. Subsequent shares don't Browse (via IE)locally (Err 500.19 - Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions) orremotely.
The contents are clearly visible in IIS iteself.
All the shares are configured identically and (as emphasized above) work under IIS6. We also have no problem with Virtual Directories pointing to a Local directory on the IIS Server itself. It is only with those VDMs with a UNC that we are having trouble with.