sinni800's questions

I have a non-domain network with a Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation here.

All shares except one work flawlessly, with the users having the correct rights. This happens from BOTH clients, one a Windows 7 and one a Windows XP machine.

Let me elaborate:

I have a share called "data" here. The share contains subfolders, these subfolders are being mapped to drives on the clients. All folders below the data folder inherit the rights from it.

For example:

\\mbssv01\data\omniwin
\\mbssv01\data\vito

These are two folders of programs which store their data in access MDBs and flat files (the company only has two users and the programs are explicitly stated as being simultaneous multi-user capable. Hell "vito" uses a MSSQL db, this folder contains additional files so w/e).

And now on to what I can access:

O: (\\mbssv01\data\omniwin) -> works flawlessly
I: (\\mbssv01\data\various) -> works flawlessly
V: (\\mbssv01\data\vito)    -> ACCESS DENIED when trying to change ANYTHING 
                    (You need to receive permissions from mbssv01\Administrator)
\\mbssv01\data\omniwin      -> works flawlessly
\\mbssv01\data\various      -> works flawlessly
\\mbssv01\data\vito         -> works flawlessly
\\mbssv01\data              -> works flawlessly

What. The. Heck.

I tried to reset all permissions to the vito folder, up to the point of giving EVERYONE full access to the data folder (the vito folder and ALL other folders INHERIT the rights from the data folder).

I tried mapping the drive to the IP of the server, does not work (direct access does though).

I'm using an IIS server behind the nice "Cloudflare" reverse proxy.

This reverse proxy farm exposes a HTTP header to my server, namely HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP. It contains the IP that connects to Cloudflare, so I can actually see who's connecting.

Now I of course want to log these IPs. Cloudflare has a little web.config script that uses the IIS REWRITE option to change the REMOTE_ADDR server variable.

        <rules>
            <clear />
            <rule name="Replace REMOTE_ADDR with CF_CONNECTING_IP" enabled="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                    <add input="{HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP}" pattern="\b(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\b" />
                </conditions>
                <serverVariables>
                    <set name="REMOTE_ADDR" value="{HTTP_CF_Connecting_IP}" />
                </serverVariables>
                <action type="None" />
            </rule>
        </rules>

Does this actually affect logging? Also: Does this affect what I get when I look at the request IP when running, for example, an ASP.NET application or a PHP script?

If it does, why does this exist: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/12/23/x-forwarded-for-http-module-for-iis7-source-included.aspx

When we can just use IIS rewrite, what advantage does THIS get me?

for a publicly accessible terminal server I have created a user profile which only allows running of a few programs (demonstration of applications).

This results in many people connecting to the same user name on the server, essentially sharing the same profile.

How can I copy the original, empty profile on every logon to a seperate directory and delete it afterwards, so everybody starts with a clean copy of the "Guest"-Account?

I have some HP Compaq T20 Thin Clients connecting to a Windows Server 2003. Now I want to upgrade to 2008 R2, so I tested a trial installation with remote desktop in administration mode.

So I try to connect my T20 to the server and... It doesn't matter if I turn off encryption or not it disconnects with an generic error instantly.

The T20s have Windows CE embedded with RDP 5.2 installed.

Out of curiosity I tried Windows Server 2008 (no R2) and it worked! I tried the same with a Windows 7 machine set up with-> no work.

I can not update the T20s to Windows NT embedded for example because they only have a low amount of flash memory.

It seems the "new" version of RDP coming from Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 is completely incompatible with the older 5.2 version.

People are having the same problem here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/700488cd-a872-47e5-85a7-595f050afc10

I have many websites hosted on IIS6 and I want to migrate them to IIS7. It is enough if the basic configuration (folder, virtual folders inside, hostheaders, ) is migrated. a great part of the configuration is in web.config anyway. It is even okay if they're just created as "classic" mode applications.

I have tried the following things:

Msdeploy. This copies the whole directoried though, not good... Tried exporting the iis websites to xml... Found nothing to give them to iis7... Anybody got an idea?