Errors in IIS 6.0 Documentation

1) FTP User isolation
The online help documentation for
FTP user isolation is wrong. Look at this section:

To create a new FTP site that isolates users

  1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, right-click the FTP Sites folder, point to New, and click FTP Site.
  2. Provide the required information in the FTP Site Description and IP Address and Port Settings dialog boxes, and click Next.
  3. In the FTP User Isolation dialog box, click Isolate users, and click Next.
  4. In the FTP User Isolation Credentials dialog box, type the user name (in the form domainname\username), password, and the default user domain of the account used to access Active Directory, and then click Next.

You should not have Step 4 when isolating FTP user in normal mode. This step only apply to Isolating user with AD, If you check with your IIS help file in Windows Server 2003, it is not the same as the online version.

2) NNTP NewsFeeds.
It was good news that now IIS 6.0 support pull feeds according to the
help documentation. Look at this section:

Network News Transfer Protocol Service

You can use the Network News Transfer Protocol service (NNTP service) to host NNTP local discussion groups on a single computer. Because this feature complies fully with the NNTP protocol, users can use any news reader client to participate in the newsgroup discussions. Through the Rfeed script, found in the inetsrv folder, the IIS NNTP service now supports newsfeeds. NNTP service does not support replication. To employ news feeds or to replicate a newsgroup across multiple computers, use Exchange Server.

NNTP service runs as Nntpsvc.dll and is hosted by Inetinfo.exe.

Well, I'm happy to tell you know that IIS 6.0 support full pull and push feeds. There's a new VBscripts (rfeed.vbs) located at %windir%/system32/inetsrv/. There's no information about this file in IIS 6.0, however you can look at the IIS 6.0 download I posted previously.

Microsoft has been informed about these quite a while ago, but I guess they are still 'digging' and looking for the 'pages' :)

Published Wed, Mar 31 2004 13:42 by bernard
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Comments

# bernard said on 01 April, 2004 10:49 AM
I just been told by MS that these documents will be updated soon and local help file will be updated with Windows Server 2003 SP1.
# TrackBack said on 01 April, 2004 11:56 AM
# bernard said on 01 April, 2004 09:01 PM
Hmm, I cannot get rfeed push the postings at my server... It seems I have to look at this stuff more...
# bernard said on 01 April, 2004 10:30 PM
Hi All

We've actually fixed the FTP User Isolation information in the IIS 6.0 Resource Guide (now called the Technical Reference) which is FREE online (see the enclosed link). With SP1, the online Help for FTP User Isolation points users directly to the Resouce Guide.


Thanks,
-Jim (IIS Technical Writer)
# bernard said on 01 April, 2004 10:32 PM
Really adding the link this time:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/IIS/6/all/techref/en-us/iisRG_CFG_21.mspx

# bernard said on 02 April, 2004 10:38 AM
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the update.

# bernard said on 02 April, 2004 10:45 AM
Hi YamaKen,

This is a test I do with GTEC's engineer -
D:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv>cscript rfeed.vbs -t a -r sha-colin-1000 -f peer -i 2 -oa push -on * -ox 5 -oz true -op 128

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Successfully added the following feed:
Remote server: sha-colin-1000
Feed type: Peer
Outbound feed properties:
Feed ID: 44
Action: Push
Enabled: True
Path header (Uucp name):
Process control messages: True
Authinfo account:
Maximum connection attempts: 10
Interval (minutes): 5
Outgoing port: 128
Temp Directory:
Newsgroups: *

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If you successfully configured the feed, you see the Feed ID and its detail, if you got blank response after you run your rfeed script, it mean the newsfeed setting is not accepted by server.

# TrackBack said on 09 May, 2004 04:04 PM
??: IIS 6.0 NNTP ???????????????
# TrackBack said on 09 May, 2004 04:05 PM
??: IIS 6.0 NNTP ???????????????

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