more on FP and shared folders

[Rachel Singer Gordon]

More on FrontPage and shared network folders -- the following came
through today's edition of the "Woody's Office Watch" e-mail
newsletter:


"4. FRONTPAGE 2002 AND IIS 5.0 
WOWser AC writes: "I used to be able to edit my website 
which is on a shared folder but as of last week I wasn't 
able to after reloading Frontpage on a new machine. I got 
errors of "server connection reset" and "The server could 
not complete your request" etc. I changed permissions went 
to officeupdates and loaded all the latest patches and 
basically tore my hair out because nothing worked. I am 
using Win98SE and Office 2000 SP2. The server is running 
Windows 2000 Server SP2. I checked with 
support.microsoft.com, searched with google.com etc but 
still no luck. 

"Finally I went to catchup.cnet.com which told me that 
there were updates for the Frontpage extensions which were 
not installed on my machine. After installing the new Front 
page extensions on my machine (not the server) then I was 
able to access the files OK. It appears as if server had a 
later version of the server extensions and this would not 
allow Frontpage to even access the folder on the server." 

Juggling FrontPage extensions can be a real bear, because 
even a minor change in the version number of a seemingly 
unrelated component (like Internet Explorer) can throw 
everything out of kilter. 

I looked at the MS Knowledge Base and scanned for various 
server error messages - and I found a BUNCH of 
incompatibilities. If you're getting a FrontPage server 
error, start with MSKB 
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?ln=EN-US&pr=kbinfo& 
). Officeupdate.Microsoft.com may help, but it generally 
won't find anything wrong with your server, much less any 
cross-version problems between your machine and your 
server. If neither of those work, the CNet Catchup program 
certainly looks like it's worth a try. "

     

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Rachel Singer Gordon / rsinger at linc.lib.il.us
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