ASP.NET service providers using Samba+Unix

[Neil Zanella]

Hello,

I wonder whether anyone knows of any service providers which issue shell
access for file upload (as in Unix ssh service), and at the same time allow
users to serve ASP.NET files (via mounting the Unix drive on a Windows Server
with Samba and having such file configured as a virtual IIS directory).
I would be interested in any service providers which offer such a
service as I could have all the benefits of a Unix shell while
developing ASP.NET (i.e. I could even develop ASP.NET pages
from within Linux without much hassle if I could find such
a service provider, or I could simply do it myself I suppose.)

Anyways, if anyone knows of such a service
I would be glad to know about it,

Thanks,

Neil

 

[Brandon Potter]

We have tried this before, and it turned out to be a really unreliable
approach to keeping the site online 24x7. However, if you hear of someone
doing this successfully, please do tell.

Brandon

 

[nzanella]

I have seen Samba used although not for this purpose, and it seemed to
work just fine.

I would like to know what was so unreliable about using
Samba for deploying ASP.NET applications developed
from within Linux.

Regards,

Neil

 

[Brandon Potter]

When we used Samba as a cheap file share on a peer to peer network it was
fine for desktop users. However, trying to keep an authenticated connection
to Samba proved to be darn near impossible with maintenance, hotfixes
requiring restarts, multiple people using the server, and had some initial
authentication issues trying to get IIS to play nicely.

The main pain was keeping that network connection authenticated and happy
and we opted that NTFS was a much more reliable way to go to make sure the
site was up whenever the server was.

Brandon