Please help with IIS!

[Superhero]

Hi dudes I need your help with IIS - I'm pretty clued up with IIS but this one is killing me.

I have Server A and Server B.

They are configured as follows:

Server A:
Windows 2003
IIS6.0
ADSL Connection
Used as a Citrix Server

Server B:
Windows 2000
IIS 4.0
IBurst Connection
Used as General Webserver.

On Server A we have a virtual directory in IIS called "citrix". When a user hits the external IP address of Server A, the Citrix Logon Client appears in the form of an ASP.NET page and the user logs on.

Sometimes (lots actually) our IS ADSL Connection goes down. Then we want to tell our staff accross the country to now log in using the external IP address of the Server B IBurst Static IP Address. The IIS4.0 on the Server B Machine should then forward the requests to the IIS on Server A.

So in simple terms this is what happends normally:

end user --> Server A --> IIS6.0 --> Work on Citrix

Now we want to use this configuration sometimes:

end user --> Server B --> IIS on Server B --> Server A --> IIS on server A --> Log on to citrix.

I hope this makes sense to someone - the more I explain the more complicated it seems - but I guess you guys will see it's actually pretty straight forward - just kinda forward requests to Server B to Server A.

That's it.

Please lemme know if you guys know how to do this / or have done this.

Thanks

 

[quovadis]

You can create a virtual directory on Server B which references a fileshare of the directory used by Server A or you could just run a TCP tunnel (many applications are available for free) which just forwards all requests on port 80 on server B to port 80 on server A (or port 443 if you're using SSL).