Thread: Front Page Extensions 2002 - help?

Apologies for not being quite on topic but I'm desperate today.

Setting up a hosting machine on 2003 RC2 for 10 web sites and all's going well apart from FP.

FP is running on the web sites fine but I can't login to admin them, keep getting the authentication dialog but it fails.

I'm also confused about users - where does one create users credentials for each virtual site? Are they integral to the machine's users somehow? Or configured independently.

I've got sub domains running, multiple sites, host headers, IIS 6, FTP server, firewall all everything's fine APART from poxy FPEs

Oh and I've Googled to death and there's no documentation pointing out how to create user accounts. Roles, yes.. but creating, no.. Confused

Any thoughts?

Big thanks
Lea

Thanks Cameron

So why can't I admin the site using my admin NTLM account? Authentication just fails and that's why I suspected I should create accounts by another method.

I can log on to Sharepoint using my admin account, no problem. But select a virtual domain the authentication box for mydomain.co.uk pops up and my admin username fails authentication..

Confused.

Cheers
Lea

But I can't admin the site with any user - that's my issue.

I can see that FPSE has created two new user groups:

OWS_xxxxxxxxx_admin "Microsoft SharePoint role 'admin' for web 'http://myservername ' and

OWS_xxxxxxxxx_admin "Microsoft SharePoint role 'admin' for web 'http://imydomain.org.uk'

Administrators have been assigned to the first group and a specific user from the Administrator group to the second

Using sharepoint I can login as admin to http://myservername but not to http://mydomain.org.uk!

:-(



Any more tips?

I have and disappointingly it's correct and the same.



I can admin the default web site but not any others so now to click through every setting until I find what's different..

I DON'T BELIEVE IT - said one famous actor said, in which incidentally used to own my car... anyway...

Solved, after spending hours (literally) changing permissions, fiddling with this and that I've solved it. Every time I tried to admin the site it was from the same machine as serving the pages, running FPSE and SharePoint.

I tried a admin login from an alternative machine and bang, straight in...How strange is that.

Don't know why the hosting machine refuses itself but hey.

Cheers
Lea

Sorry Lea I didn't spot this one earlier - but yes as you say you cannot admin FP from the same machine.

Hi mark

Of course you are quite right with tinkering with permissions, but I was quite carefully. Whatever permission I granted straight after testing I removed it.

I love sysinternals tools also - good point about filemon as that didn't cross my mind. Shame they sold-out to MS though! :-(

Cheers
Lea