IIS & HP-UX (Samba) Privilege Issue

[ChrisAndrews74]

Hi Folks,

I'm experiencing an IIS issue which I believe to be related to the fact the content being sourced is from an HP-UX Samba share. Details as follows:

Windows 2003 Server SP2
IIS 6.0
HP-UX B.11.23
SMB 3.0.14a

What happens is that when using the website configured on the IIS server, although most of the site content is available via local storage to the IIS server, one of the site functions attempts to access and display to the user content (eg. Word .doc/.jpg image) which is stored on the HP-UX samba share. When this occurs, the user is prompted to enter credentials (presumably for the IIS server as that is the server name returned). No relevant server credentials (eg. IIS server administrator) are accepted.

IIS Directory Security is configured to allow 'Enable anonymous access' (User = IUSR_WEBMASTER) & Authenticated Access = 'Integrated Windows Authentication'. If Authenticated Access is not enabled the page simply fails with an error, "HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to an ACL set on the requested resource."

Note: If the same functionality is performed when running as local admin on the IIS server, the user credentials are not prompted for and the content is displayed.

Unsure what to try next, any suggestions would be most appreciated.