Web connector on Win2003 IIS 6.0

[cjlarue]

Does anyone have a successful implimentation of CE 9 Pro with the web connector running on IIS 6? I have CE9 running on a Win2000 server inside the firewall and am trying to hit it from a win2003 server with IIS 6 in the DMZ. I have installed the web connector on the IIS 6 server and verified the correct mappings. I have also checked the -port and -requestport on the connector and the WCS.

It seems that although I have the connector configured to communicate on a specific port, The requests are not being directed to that port. any suggestions appriciated.


Regards
Chuck LaRue
ADRS Computer Services

 

[cjlarue]

OK Per Crystal support IIS6 is supported. My problem was with configuration of the web component server port to work with a NAT firewall setup. Once we were able to resolve getting the correct IP passed all is well. A good reference doc for this is the whitepaper "Crystal Enterprise 8.5 Firewall Support" from the crystal site. Tech support says this is still valid for CE9 .


Regards
Chuck LaRue
ADRS Computer Services

 

[sandy3269]

I currently manage a large CE 9 network with distributed services.

I have various users connecting to Dev. - Test and Prod. through Web Connectors on IIS6 boxes to servers running IIS5 on 2000.

Until we added a MS Windows maintenance upgrade to our 2000 boxes, everything worked fine. Now daily, the Web Component Server on just one system stops responding, requiring a re-start of this service.

I'm currently configuring another WCS on one of the other servers as a failover, adding the entry to the Web Connector on my middle tier firewalled server. According to my understanding of the technology, this should work for me as I figure out what the maintenance upgrade broke.

In short, Web connections through a firewall work but watch out for RAS in this environment.


Sandy Taylor
Crystal Administrator

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