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| Publish a folder with IIS |
| Setting up a share is the traditional way to share files with other users on a network. In fact, it's |
| been the only way to share files with most Windows platforms without employing a third-party |
| utility. In Windows 2000, however, you can use IIS to share files. This lets users access a folder |
| To share a folder through IIS, locate and right-click the folder in Explorer and choose Properties. |
| Click the Web Sharing tab and click Share This Folder. Windows 2000 opens the Edit Alias dialog |
| box. Type the share name in the Alias field and select the types of access you want others to have in |
| the folder, such as Read and Write. |
| To make it possible for users to browse the folder without you creating a Web page to serve up the |
| content, select the Directory Browsing option. Set Application Permissions to None (unless you |
| want users to be able to run scripts from the folder) and click OK. Windows 2000 adds a virtual |
| directory under the Default Web Site in IIS and sets the properties according to the settings you |
| When users need to access the shared folder, they point their Web browsers to the URL for the |
| Default Web Site on your computer (such as the IP address or NetBIOS name), followed by the |
| alias you specify for the folder. For example, if you specify the alias files on a computer named |
| SNOOPY, the users can access the folder with the URL http://snoopy/files. |
| The shared folder works much like an FTP or Gopher site. The files appear in a list, and the user |
| can click a link to open or download the file. |
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