>Does the directory you are calling them from have execute privledges? If
>you call the .exe files from a non-executable virtual directory (setup with
>IIS Mgr), they should act as downloads instead of being run on the server.
>
>Zak Wolfinger - zak@cyberlink.com
>Systems Administrator - CyberLink, Inc.
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Stark <stark@generation.net>
>To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
>Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 12:04 PM
>Subject: .exe files being treated as cgi's instead of documents to send
>
>
>
>For some reason our IIS3 server has suddenly decided to not let people
>download the installer programs for viewers and stuff that we want
>them to use. Instead it's trying to run them on the server as cgi's.
>
>I thought this worked properly in the past, it would be a severe
>security whole if the server just ran any executable file as a cgi
>instead of only files marked as intended to be run on the server.
>Thankfully we don't use our NT servers as multi-user servers so the
>lack of this type of security isn't really an issue, but we still
>would like to offer files for downloading.
>
>We've tried all different permutations of options, what are we missing?
>
>thanks for your help
>greg
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