How to "see" webs on a network (XP/FP02)

[Carla B.]

My hub and I are striving to untangle the combined impact
of a) my upgrade to 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 know
if a given problem stems from (a) or (b) or a bit of each.

The Setup: A home network server downstairs, talking to two
desktops upstairs. All of them now on XP. The Front Page
IIS extensions and all our local copies of prior webs live
on a _network_ drive ("Drive I").

The Problem: Since he re-installed the server extensions to
work with XP, I can't get my Front Page to "see" my prior
webs *as* webs. It will open the pages and show the folders
fine, but if I display a page in the browser, it displays
as: "file:///I:/InetPub/wwwroot/domainBU/(filename)".

A local web opened that way will publish to its www cousin
OK. But I can't publish BACK the other way, from the web
copy to the local copy out on Drive I. Error says: "The
folder I:\{directory)\domain1BU is contained by a
server-based web. To access this web, you must use the
http:// URL for the web server." Just telling it to use the
same path and preface it with http doesn't cut it either.

Nor can I designate any local webs as Favorites or fire up
a web on Drive I in FP by clicking on it in Explorer
(clicking on the folder does not open the web; it just
opens the folder and if I then click on a page, it opens
the page in the browser instead). When I open the
application, the webs on Drive I show in the Recent menu as
"I:\(directory)\ domain1BU" not as http anything. Does this
suggest my FP now doesn't "see" them as webs?

So which clue are we missing? A bullet list of options to
check will be welcome if the answer isn't obvious.

Thanks!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You need to be accessing the server by http://machinename or
http://IPAddress, not by a drive letter.

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[Guest]

Thanks Thomas. But it still seems as if something more
fundamental is not working.

Let's say the machine name is "Joe". When I open Front
Page, select Open Web, select Network Places, and navigate
to the directory for "Joe" the folders all show their
little web icons. But when I click on one, it just opens
the folder, not the whole web. And when I click on a page
and open it, I am back to square one (a page that displays
in the browser as "file://Joe/inetpub/wwwroot/(etc)" not
http anything.

In fact, when doing it THAT way (i.e. through Network
Places instead of through the Recent menu in FP), the page
does not even DISPLAY in the browser. But if I manually
replace thre "file:" with "http" it DOES display. Which
takes me back to my root impression that FP itself isn't
seeing them as 'real' webs yet.

It also brings back to a question my spouse wondered aloud
when he re-installed the extensions to work with XP. How to
get the extensions to "own" a set of pre-existing webs?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

First of all, to open the web via FP open web and using the http, you must
have a web server running. Is your IIS running, and world wide web services
started?
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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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[Kevin Spencer]

I get the feeling this is all due to the new installation of OS and
FrontPage. I beleive they need to do a Recalculate Hyperlinks to get their
vti files in order.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Guest]

First of all, to open the web via FP open web and using
the http, you must have a web server running. Is your IIS
running, and world wide web services started? <<

So far as I know IIS has been running since he installed it
(can I double check that somehow from my desktop?).

I don't know about the second "www services" part. Is that
something I do at my desktop in FP, or something my spouse
needs to do on the server side? If the latter, could you
bullet the steps or give me a link to some online guide?

In case it isn't obvious <wry grin>, but of us are flying
blind with these latest revs, even though everything was
working fine before when the server was on NT.

Thanks much again!

 

[Guest]

I get the feeling this is all due to the new
installation of OS and FrontPage. I beleive they need to do
a Recalculate Hyperlinks to get their vti files in order. <<

THANK you Kevin. That may just be exactly it. I will have
him try that when he gets home tonight, and let you know
how it turned out.

Some set of pointers is sure not working, since I just
tried to create a new web out on the network drive and it
would not let me do that either. Or more precisely, it said
it was creating after I told it to use an http://Joe/testxp
address, but no new site popped in FP and nothing matching
(testxp) could be found by Explorer either.

Appreciate the input (and patience) of all contributors!