Crystal Reports, Virtual Directories, and PageServer

[InShadows]

Situation: We have a working model of Crystal Reports working on the Crystal Enterprise server and ASP pages which are residing on another server call up the pages. It works but the boss wants to change everything about it.

So we place the rpt files on the web server and then connect via mapped drive the web server to the crystal enterprise server. We then create a virtual directory in the crystal web server as well as the IIS. The crystal web server is using the mapped drive as the virtual and IIS is using the unc address.

I bring up the reports from ASP on the web server and then send it over to the crystal server it displays a message File \\unc\d\web applications\report_name.rpt not found. even though it's listing the correct report name and location. Can this be done, having the reports on a different server from the crystal enterprise installation?

 

[RoughingIT]

I somewhat doubt that this would work. Mapped drives are available only to the user account that created it. So if you log on to your box and create a mapped drive, and then I log on to the same machine, I would not see the mapping. Since IIS is a service, I doubt it could use your mapping.

my 2cents

 

[InShadows]

As described in this article,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257174

we have a mapped drive to the share for the OS but then use UNC for the IIS portion of the Crystal Reports to keep the website together as a whole both Crystal Reports and the ASP pages. The Crystal Enterprise is on a different server.