HELP!! Accessing other machines with an IIS CGI script

[little emma]

Thanks for the info.  I'm going to repost this in comp.lang.python as well
as in a couple of MS IIS groups with some additional information (code
snippets and results).

Paul

"Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126728996_233 at spool6-east.superfeed.net...
> Without knowing what operation fails, it's kind of
> difficult to give any meaningful answers.
> At what point in the code do you get the error ?
>
> If IIS runs under a local account, it might not have
> permission to access the other machine, or to impersonate
> a domain user.
>
> You might want to set up auditing on the
> folder you're trying to list, and see exactly what user
> IIS is connecting as (or if it's connecting at all).
>
>    hth
>        Roger
>
>
> "paulp" <paul.pigott at acs-inc.com> wrote in message
news:1126719318.537588.107060 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm working on a CGI program that will run under MS IIS 5.0 and will
> > browse folders on three other machines, building HTML pages that will
> > provide links to these folders.
> >
> > Essentially, the CGI will connect to each machine in turn, doing the
> > FindFirst/FindNext process based on the current criteria.  It will
> > select certain files/folders, and build an HTML page as it goes.
> >
> > The premise is fine.  If I run the program from the command line, it
> > seems to work fine and I get my HTML code out.  I can copy the code
> > into a separate file, open it in the browser, and all appears right
> > with the world.
> >
> > However, when I try to run the CGI from the browser itself, I get all
> > kinds of problems.  The first one I got was a 1312, "A specified logon
> > session does not exist.  It may have already been terminated."  After
> > doing some searching, I began to investigate impersonation of a logged
> > on user.  This produces a different error: 1314, "A required privilege
> > is not held by the client."
> >
> > I've been arguing with this now for several days and the frustration
> > level is beginning to get quite high.  Has anyone else ever tried this?
> > I find it hard to believe that I'm the first to do this.
> >
> > Of course, one of my problems is that I'm neither an IIS guru nor an
> > Admin guru.  And we have neither here in the office.
> >
> > I'm coding this in Python 2.4 and the Windows extensions.  I have a
> > number of other CGI programs in Python running under IIS that work
> > correctly, but those only do database accesses.  This one I'm trying to
> > put together is the first one to actually do file searches.
> >
> > I have set the privileges for the logged on account on my IIS box for
> > SE_TCB_NAME, SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME and SE_ASSIGNPRIMARYTOKEN_NAME and
> > rebooted.  To no avail.  I'm not sure if there are additional
> > alterations that need to be done to the security policies or not.
> > Again, I'm not a guru.
> >
> > If anyone can give me more information/guidance I would greatly
> > appreciate it.  If you need more information from me, I will do my best
> > to provide it.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
>
>
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