Cannot find server - first try, then no problem. Every time... ?

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From: KMS - Brett Anderson (gotomysiteto_at_emailme.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:02:27 -0500

I'm running Win XP Pro (new to me, OEM install on new laptop) and MS
FrontPage 2000, upgraded from FP98.

Whenever I open FP for the first time (with it attempting to load a disc
based web), it says

"Could not find a web server at "computer name'. Please check to make sure
that the web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set correctly.
If you are sure that everything is correct, the web server may be
temporarily out of service."

If I open FP and it opens a web based web, I don't get the error. However,
if I try to publish that web back to my machine (to download a changing
database), I get the exact same error.

Now the cool bit. If I click past the error, I don't see it again for that
session.

That is, when opening FP expecting a disk based web to open, I get the
error, I click "OK" and FP opens empty, no web displayed. I then select
File/Open and select the web I want, and it opens fine.

If trying to publish from a live web based web, I get the error, click OK,
it opens a non server based download box. Hit cancel, hit Publish again and
it publishes the web fine.

>From this, I'd suggest that the server is not running until FP prompts it,
then it will start up, only after first giving an error to FP.

However, there's one more twist. I have a server based shopping cart on my
web site. Trying to access the "FrontPage component" part of that car on a
live web will result in an "unidentified component" or "component not
installed" type of error, because the background stuff for the cart
management is not installed on the hosting server. However, it is installed
on my local machine, so I can usually access the "FP Component" (which
allows me to set pricing, etc). I've yet to be able to do this on the XP
machine. It acts just like the live web.

This implies that the server is not running on my XP machine, but I'm just
not computer savvy enough to work it out.

I've tried restarting IIS. All IIS settings appear to be correct, and it
says it's running.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

Brett Anderson
KMS
www.bmw-stuff.com
440 338 1650

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