Intranet / Publishing / Access Questions

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Cranbone

Hi All,

A FrontPage newbie here...I have a couple 'o questions.

Here's my set-up; 2 networked machines with WinXP Pro.
Mine (the older one) has FAT32, and my wife's has NTFS.
I've installed IIS on mine in the hopes that she can
publish across our little network to view changes before
uploading to our web host.

Some questions: I've set up IIS to the best of my
knowledge and keep getting security errors telling me to
convert to NTFS. Do I have to? The REAL question; Is
there a step by step procedure out there to set up a home
intranet? My wife needs to test out her integrated Access
Database by publishing to my machine.

Thanks so much for your help (and your patience!).

Mike
 
Yes, you have to convert to NTFS to fix your permissions issue under IIS.

If your Wife has Windows XP Pro, she should be able to test directly on her machine.

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Thomas,

Thanks for the NTFS info. Re: testing on her machine;
could you point me somewhere? Or, maybe there's a brief
"How to" you could lay out.

Again thanks!

Mike
 
If you wife's machine has Windows XP Pro, then install IIS and the FP extensions, then she would
create, manage and view the site on her machine at http://localhost or http://localhost/subwebname


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Thomas,

Thanks so much for taking the time. I have more questions
for though (sorry, I am newbie you know!); Does it matter
if it's a "disk based web"? I get this error message
saying that it can't publish to a "disk based web".

In addition, where can I go to get the steps to properly
set up IIS for her? I'm confused with folder aliases, the
"wwwroot" folder, etc.

Thanks again,

Mike
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If you wife's machine has Windows XP Pro, then install IIS
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and the FP extensions, then she would
create, manage and view the site on her machine at
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http://localhost or http://localhost/subwebname
 
Once you have installed IIS, you must open any disk-based web (c\...) and then publish to
http://localhost/webname thereafter you would always open the web in FP or your browser at
http://localhost/webname. Actually, you can then delete any disk-based webs.

Once you start using http://localhost/webname you will need to do a complete publish of the web to
your live/remote internet host, unless you open the live/remote site in FP and publish it back to
http://localhost/webname instead of publishing the disk-based web to http://localhost/webname.

wwwroot is the physical location for the storage of your web content, however you only access the
web via FP as indicated above.

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