Adding a new NAS configuration
The Add NAS Configuration page allows you to add a new NAS configuration for hosting organizations on it.
Important: Ensure that the server that you are going to use for NAS meets the server requirements as described in the service's latest installation and upgrade guide. Before using a new NAS server for storing data, you must first add the NAS server to the Unify domain, then add the MPFServiceAcct user to the local administrators group on the NAS server.
To add a new NAS configuration:
On the left navigation panel, in the Windows Web Hosting section, click NAS Configuration.
On the NAS Configuration Overview page, click Add NAS Server.
On the Add NAS Configuration page, specify the following information:
NAS name: Type a unique name for the NAS configuration, which the service provider and the resellers will use to host an organization in the directory specified in the Path on NAS server text box.
NAS Server Name: Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or the NetBIOS name of the NAS server. For example, nasserver.ensim.com or NASSERVER.
Important: Do not enter the IP Address of the NAS server in the NAS Server Name text box. If you have a clustered NAS setup, then specify the Virtual Server name used in the cluster as the NAS Server Name.
Path on NAS server: Enter the location of the directory on the NAS server in which the organization data will be stored. For example, C:\nasdata1.
Important: Before specifying the directory in the Path on NAS server text box, you must create it on the NAS server.
Share on NAS server (Optional): If you want the Ensim Unify control panel to create the share automatically on the NAS server, then leave this text box blank. If not, then you must manually create the folder share on the NAS server with full access permissions for the Everyone group.
Note: If you have a clustered NAS setup, then you must manually create the share on the cluster, and specify this cluster share name in the Share on NAS server text box.
Click Add.
The new NAS configuration is displayed on the NAS Configuration Overview page.
If you are going to use ASP.NET applications such as Power Tools on this NAS share folder, then you need to provide Full Trust to this NAS share folder on each hosting server used for the Windows Web Hosting service. This is required since by default ASP.NET applications do not have permissions to execute code residing on UNC paths. For more information about this issue, refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/THCMCh19.asp.
To provide Full Trust permission to the NAS share folder:
Log in as the domain administrator to the hosting server used for the Windows Web Hosting service.
Open a command window and change to the <Windows_dir>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\Version_number directory. If you have installed Windows on the C:\ drive, then change to the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\Version_number directory.
For ASP.NET 1.1, use v1.1.4322 and for ASP.NET 2.0, use v2.0.50727 for Version_number
On the command line, run the following command:
caspol -m -ag 1 -url <UNC_path_of_NAS_share_folder>\* FullTrust where <UNC_path_of_NAS_share_folder> refers to the UNC path of the share folder on the NAS server.
For example, caspol -m -ag 1 -url \\nasserver1.com\WVHSHARE-11092005-162232\* FullTrust
If you have more than one hosting server for the Windows Web Hosting service, repeat the above procedure on each hosting server.
The NAS share folder is provided Full Trust permission on all hosting servers used for the Windows Web Hosting service.
After configuring the NAS server, you can add an organization with NAS as the storage type. The organization's data will then be stored on the NAS server in the parent directory mentioned above.
Note: If you want to allow a reseller to provision organizations on a NAS configuration, then you need to provide the NAS name of the NAS configuration to the reseller, since resellers cannot view the list of NAS configurations.