What it means is that in your IIS metabase there is a virtual directory pointing to that path, and when the service starts its trying to create the virtual directory. Check your IIS admin app to delete the virtual directory. HEnry > -----Original Message----- > From: Harry Whitehouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: \\IISsamples Probe? > > > One of our NT4/SP6 DMZ servers showed this NT log entry > several times over > the last few days. > > "The server was unable to add the virtual root '/IISSAMPLES' for the > directory 'C:\InetPub\ftproot\tj\iissamples' due to the > following error: The > system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code." > > I recall that one old NT attack method was to access sample > code provided by > MS in order to transfer files, etc. Knowing this, we had removed this > directory. But I really don't know what the message above > implies -- that > someone was trying to access something in a non-existent > directory or (as > the text implies) trying to create that directory. > > Can anyone shed some light on what might be happening? > > TIA > > Harry > > > > > > > - > [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
