Error creating IIS Virtual Direction on Remote PC

[CMoore]

Hi,

I'm getting an error when creating a virtual directory in IIS on a remote PC. It works ok to create an IIS application on a server on our LAN, but if I try to create the application on a server through the internet, I get the error:

Error in Action (JScript) script code at Line 21, Column 2 (The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable)

I can ping the machine and I have opened the firewall to this server to allow the following protocols...is there something I am missing? Do I need to set some permissions somewhere?

RPC endpoint mapper
135/tcp, 135/udp
Network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) name service
137/tcp, 137/udp
NetBIOS datagram service
138/udp
NetBIOS session service
139/tcp
RPC dynamic assignment
1024-65535/tcp
Server message block (SMB) over IP (Microsoft-DS)
445/tcp, 445/udp
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
389/tcp
LDAP ping
389/udp
LDAP over SSL
636/tcp
Global catalog LDAP
3268/tcp
Global catalog LDAP over SSL
3269/tcp
Kerberos
88/tcp, 88/udp
Domain Name Service (DNS)
53/tcp1, 53/udp
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) resolution (if required)
1512/tcp, 1512/udp
WINS replication (if required)
42/tcp, 42/udp

I am using version Visual Build Professional 6.2a.

Thanks,
C

[kinook]

I don't know. The IIS Virtual Dir action uses WMI to administer IIS, so that would be a question for MS. Put something like this in a .vbs file to debug external to VBP:

Set svr = GetObject("IIS://servername/w3svc/1/Root")

[CMoore]

Ah well now that I know it's WMI, there appears to be a few MS support articles detailing all the things you need set up in Windows Firewall that may be stopping it, I'll check it out and see if that fixes it.

[CMoore]

Ah well, I've spent a couple of days playing with the firewall and many other DCOM/WMI bits and pieces and reading multitudes of websites on the topic, but I can't get it to work...so...

Can I do this another way? Can I use an MSBuild Task to create the remote virtual directory? Or something else?

Thanks.

[kinook]

I don't know if the security issues will be any different, but you could try remotely launching a .bld project or script on the remote computer to create the virtual dir local to that machine, using the VisBuildPro Project action (if VBP is installed there) or a Run Program action.
http://www.visualbuild.com/Manual/vbpremotetab.htm
http://www.visualbuild.com/Manual/programremotetab.htm