We are on the verge of moving from the experimenting phase with OI to actually going live with at least 1 web based application. One point that we are looking at is the overhead that is required to allow access to the data, ie, IUSR must have administrator rights, a user must be logged into the machine running INET_GATEWAY. I know that many of you are using this functionality and I would like to know how you have handled the issue.

Thanks

S

There must be a user logged on to the oicgi box because OpenInsight cannot run as a service. Microsoft has been working to make it impossible for the internet information server to interact with the desktop because such interaction is a security weak spot. Thus, by running oicgi with internet information server you are always fighting the IIS security model.

We usually opt for a simpler server. The Sambar server available from www.sambar.com or www.tucows.com is free, easy to set up and works well with OI on NT or Win 95. If you must run IIS on the same NT box then you can run sambar on a different port and code the port into your url (http://myserver:8080/cgi-bin/oicgi/trace?).

If you really cannot live with someone logged onto your primary web server then set up sambar / oicgi on a second box and use a perl script or active server page in combination with the internet transfer control to accept the request with the primary server, then use a winsock connection to retrieve the oicgi data and pass it back to the caller.

Hope this helps.

Bob

Bob@winwinsol.com

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