Only Members of the Local Administrators Group Can Author to FrontPage Web

ID: Q222063

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 3.0, 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to author to a FrontPage Web, you are repeatedly prompted for a password. Only members of the local administrators group can author.

CAUSE

This is most often caused by inappropriate permissions.

RESOLUTION

Open the Web as a local administrator and do the following:

On the Tools menu, click Permissions.

On the User tab, make sure your users logon account is specified with at least author access, and then remove IUSR_<computername> (if it is there).

On the Groups tab, remove Interactive, Network, and Everyone (if they are listed).

Click Apply.

On the User tab, make sure that the correct radio button is selected to either enable or restrict browse access, based on your preference.

Click OK.

Click Start, and then click Run.

Type the following path in the "Open:" box:
<drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\Version3.0\Bin\Fpsrvwin.exe
where <drive> is the drive where FrontPage is installed (C by default).

In the Select Server or Port box, highlight your server and click the Check and Fix button.

If you are prompted to tighten security as much as possible, choose Yes.

From a command prompt type:

For IIS 4.0
net stop iisadmin /y
net start w3svc
net start msftpsvc
net start smtpsvc
For IIS 3.0
net stop w3svc
net start w3svc

MORE INFORMATION

If the users were added using the command line server administrator (Fpsrvadm.exe or Fpremadm.exe), you must restart the Web server for those changes to take effect.

If you are using Basic authentication, the users must have "log on locally" rights. In addition, if the user accounts are Windows NT domain accounts, they should use domainname\username when logging on to the Web.

Additional query words:

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:; winnt:3.0,4.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbprb