[ale] Running executable apps on IIS

[Keeler, James]

I definitely don't want users to download and install anything.  To install
an app, the user must be a member of the Power Users or Admin groups on that
machine.  Can't have that.

I am obviously not wanting to make my webserver insecure, but this machine
is also an intranet server and not accessible from outside the network.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
James R. Keeler, MCSE
Information Systems Specialist
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:runman at speedfactory.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:34 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] Running executable apps on IIS


Yes, ASP runs on the server side.  You need to have it set up in an ASP page
- be sure to allow scripts and executables to be ran in IIS.  In IIS's
manager you need to set the Administrative Tools --> Internet Service
Manager --> Your Website --> right click Properties --> Execute permissions
to allow scripts and executables.  This is seriously scary from a security
point of view (in an already unsecure server - commonly seen as the most
insecure program/most exploited out there).  I have *never* done this/seen
it done and for all of the obvious reasons.

You might want to just put these programs in a folder, allow browsing so
that users could download them and run them from their own PC's as a
client-server distributed app so that they could connect to a server and
extract data/whatever.  SSH/PC Anywhere might help, though that is scary
too.

You might create a share on the server, make it available to Everyone and if
someone clicks on it then it should run on the server.  Right click on
folder --> Properties --> Sharing --> Share this folder.

HTH

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of 
> Robert Coggins
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:13 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Running executable apps on IIS
>
>
> James,
>
> How are they connecting to the server? About the only way they can do 
> this is if the remotely login.  For example telnet, ssh, windows 
> remote login.  Over the web you might be able to do this using asp.  I 
> know php has scripts to run programs server side.  ASP should too.  
> This will run the program as the admin I believe or what ever user IIS 
> runs under. You will of course have to give the app permissions to do 
> so.  I hope this helps.  There might be something else you can do but 
> right now I can't think of anything else...
>
> -Rob
>
> Keeler, James wrote:
>
> > I am always being hit up by people in the department to put certain 
> > programs on the intranet so that everyone can access them.  Some of 
> > these are EXEs.  How can I get these to run on the server side?
> >
> > Example: I have a program, PUBLIC.EXE, and I need to create a link 
> > to it on the intranet.  I want this program to run on the server, 
> > not on the client.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > James R. Keeler, MCSE
> > Information Systems Specialist
> > Hamilton County Sheriff's Office
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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