FrontPage Web on shared server ... again

[Karen Knox]

Hi all.  I'm still fighting with FrontPage on creating a Web on a shared
drive on our WinNT 4.0 server.  I've made a little "progress," such that I'm
getting a new error message now.  So I thought I'd see if anyone is familiar
with this behavior...

What I've done:
On the server - I created a new folder within a shared drive on the server.
I copied some files from our web site to this new folder.  I've given this
new folder & all files correct permissions.
On my client Win98 workstation - I started up FrontPage.  I did an Open Web
and browsed to this folder's location on the server.  FrontPage tells me
that it needs to add some files in order to convert the directory to a FP
Web.  I say OK.  FP does its thing and successfully opens the Web.

All seems OK.  But then...
I double-click on a filename within the FP Folder List pane so that it will
open for editing, and I get the following error:
	"An error occurred while accessing your FrontPage web files.  Authors - if
authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this site's
server.  Webmasters - please see the server's system log for more details."

Funny, I'd be the webmaster, and I'm clueless.  I don't see any updated
messages in the system log (although I could be looking in the wrong place).

To make it even more complicated, some of the files in the Web actually DO
open successfully.  But most of them do not.  Most of them flag the message
above.  So I don't understand why I'm getting this message, or why it only
affects some of the files and not all of them.

I've been thinking there's a permissions error of sorts, but I am able to
open/view any of the files in the Web successfully using a web browser.  So
I do have access to the file.  So now I'm back to thinking there's a
FrontPage problem.

I'd be most grateful for any ideas on this...  Thanks!

          Karen
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Karen C. Knox, MLIS
kknox at tln.lib.mi.us
Head of Systems & Technology
Novi Public Library - Novi, Michigan


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Karen Knox [mailto:kknox at tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent:	Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:03 PM
To:	'web4lib at webjunction.org'
Subject:	FrontPage Web on shared server

I'm hoping someone out there might be able to help me with this...

We're just starting to use FrontPage 2000 for web page development.  I'm
currently migrating our web site to a new server, running Linux & Apache.
We will not be "publishing" to the Web directly (in the sense of FrontPage
publishing), but rather FTP-ing (actually WinSCP-ing for security) our files
to/from the server.  (I know the FP server extensions exist for Linux, but I
don't want to get into that.)  However, we do have a WinNT 4.0 server that
is a file server, where we have shared drives and such.

What I want to do is create a FrontPage Web on a shared drive on our NT
server so that all members of our Web Team can access it, edit files, etc.
in a common spot that's not on the web server itself.  I've tried this a
number of times, and I can't get it to work.  I installed FrontPage on the
NT server, created the Web, and populated it with all the web files.  Then,
from a client (Win98) workstation, I go into FrontPage and do an Open Web
and point to the shared drive location, and I get this error:
	"The server "" timed out.  The current request did not complete
successfully."
This NT server does not have IIS (or FP server extensions) installed and is
not acting as a web server.  But I wouldn't think it should have to.  I just
want it to store the files.

Can anyone provide any insight for me??  Thanks much.

          Karen
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Karen C. Knox, MLIS
kknox at tln.lib.mi.us
Head of Systems & Technology
Novi Public Library - Novi, Michigan