Short answer: Possibly, but not trivial.
Long answer:
"Gateway Services for Netware" (GSNW) is the MS-approved way of letting an
application on an NT server work with a Netware file server. The expected
use of GSNW works more or less like this:
1) set up an account on the Netware server or in NDS
2) Tell NT to connect to the Netware server with the userid and password
defined in step 1
3) Create a share on the NT server that points to a specific volume on the
Netware server
All requests for files to this NT share are handled by NT connecting to
Netware using the single, defined account; you can give people different
permissions to the NT share using the usual NT share permissions, but you
can't distinguish between them on the Netware side. So this doesn't help
you directly.
In another approach, it is also possible to create an IIS virtual directory
that maps to a share on another machine; I think this share could probably
be Netware instead of NT. I believe, however, that all connections to this
share use a single account that is defined when you create the vdir.
I think it is also possible, from the console on a machine with GSNW
installed, to initiate a connection to any netware server using any userid
and password you want. Therefore it might be possible to use CFIMPERSONATE
to provide a userid and password, then use CFFILE to access content on the
Netware server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:39 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: file security/authentication using CF in a novell environment
I have a client who has a Novell environment. I, myself, have very little
exposure to Novell. They would like to assign file-level permissions to
various files on their Cold Fusion/IIS/NT 4.0 server. In NT, this is no
problem, I simply set up the ACLs on the specific files and the clients can
access them using NT Challenge/Response authentication. Assuming the user is
logged in to the domain, they never have to re-enter their credentials to
access protected resources on the comapny intranet since it is all
accomplished via pass-through authentication.
My question is, can this same affect be accomplished in a Netware
environment? (NW 4.0, to be exact) I've read some stuff in the archives
about a "Gateway" service providing something similar to what I'm looking
for. Can anyone elaborate?
Any help is appreciated. If you email responses to me directly, I will post
a compilation of answers to the list.
--kurt
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