FP02 Extension Headaches

C

CB Sanders

My hub and I are striving mightily to untangle the combined impact of
a) my installing Front Page 02 and b) his upgrading our home server
from NT4 to XP. The net effect of both is making many things work
differently, and it's hard to diagnose if a given problem stems from
(a) or (b) or a bit of each.

Everything seemed to be working fine with FP02 locally before he
changed the home server OS, so I presume most of the problems track
back to that somehow, but not necessarily. I'll give a couple
examples, and welcome any feedback, even if just ideas for things to
try..

1) A (comparatively) simple problem
The pointers to all my recent webs no longer work. They had been
working fine in 02 before the server software went to XP. Using the
History list, I found a couple and tried to add them to Favorites; it
said (in effect) No Can Do. So then I surfed to them manually (after
remapping the network drive where they live), and it saw them well
enough to launch and then publish to the Web, but I still cant get
them to map to "Favorites" whether through the FP dialog or using
Explorer.

2) A more complex issue
Corrected a page locally. Published it. Mounted the web side copy, saw
another mistake, fixed it live, then tried to publish the web side
copy BACK to my local web to keep them in synch. Got a a No Can Do, in
effect, again. It wouldn't just let me browse to the local folder and
say "Put it there".. said it needed the address in http: format. DId
that, and then it said "no such web exists in that location" (even
though the same http brings up the local copy to view in a browser).

Reading help files for an hour yielded no clue, so I figured I'd come
ask here and see if anyone has some good gueses.

Hub has some added queries to toss into the mix, if anyone knows:

o He tried to untangle/redo the web of permisisons it takes to make
this transition. If he just tries to start over from scratch,
reinstalling the FP server extensions to work with XP, how does one
point it to a heirarchy of EXISTING sites and just make it "own" them?

o Is it likely to make any difference to un/re-install Front Page
itself on our own machines?


Carla
[who would be happy to return to how life used to be two revs ago in
both Front Page and the home network sever..arrrgh!]
 

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