IPP problem - page cannot be displayed

[Bill Fisher]

I am trying to set up my win2k pro machine as an IPP print server but
I can't get the printer web page to load,. instead, I get an http
error # 500 "page cannot be displayed".
When I browse to http://printserver/printers I get the prompt to enter
the user name and the password and then I get the above described
error.
I get this error when browsing from both the client (an xp machine)
and the server (the win2k machine).
Note that in my router setup I have forwarded TCP port # 631 to the
win2k machine.
Other web pages on this IIS server work fine. I can access them
without any problems so there is nothing wrong with my IIS setup.(or
so I think).

If anyone has some pointers i would greatly appreciate them.
bf

 

[Bill Fisher]

Fixed! Here is what I did for the benefit of others.
In the virtual directory settings, setting the application protection
to either High or Low worked and I got the page to load.
Setting it back to medium prevented the page from being loaded again.
I don't know why this is so, it may be due to some esoteric security
setting that's improperly set but if anyone has any specific ideas
please post them.