I'm trying to set up a discussion group here at work.  The pc in my office i
s
running FP 2003, the server is Win 2k with 2k server extensions.

At home I have an XP Pro operating system and front page 2003.  I can get
discussion groups to work by developing them some where (anywhere...) and
then publishing them to local host (127.0.0.1).  No errors, everything works
like it should.

But I'm struggling with getting the same thing going at work. I believe I'm
getting the rather vague "Cannot display page" error...

Could this be because I'm trying to publish 2003 server extensions on a 200
server?  If so, is there a way around this?   My network manager says the
server is old and can't be upgraded to win 2003, and that Win 2000 server
can't run 2003 server extensions.  I know software is written to be backward
s
compatible, but I have the reverse situation, it may be a forward
compatiblity issue.

Any thoughts?   I'd appreciate it!

Thanks,

Tom

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There are no 2003 server extensions. FP 2003 will work with FP 2000 and FP
2002 server extensions.  The discussion groups will work with FP 2000
extenions.
--
===
Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/of...etid=FX01085802
FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/fro...fo/default.mspx
Understanding FrontPage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...ding/frontpage/
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...fh;en-us;fp10se
===
"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63EF0B09-7C6B-4333-B9B1-3A5513E39BFB@microsoft.com...
| I'm trying to set up a discussion group here at work.  The pc in my office
is
| running FP 2003, the server is Win 2k with 2k server extensions.
|
| At home I have an XP Pro operating system and front page 2003.  I can get
| discussion groups to work by developing them some where (anywhere...) and
| then publishing them to local host (127.0.0.1).  No errors, everything
works
| like it should.
|
| But I'm struggling with getting the same thing going at work. I believe
I'm
| getting the rather vague "Cannot display page" error...
|
| Could this be because I'm trying to publish 2003 server extensions on a
200
| server?  If so, is there a way around this?   My network manager says the
| server is old and can't be upgraded to win 2003, and that Win 2000 server
| can't run 2003 server extensions.  I know software is written to be
backwards
| compatible, but I have the reverse situation, it may be a forward
| compatiblity issue.
|
| Any thoughts?   I'd appreciate it!
|
| Thanks,
|
| Tom
|

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Thanks, Tom.  At least I can rule out the server extensions as the culprit.
I'm still baffled, however.  I have XP Pro on my computer at home, XP Pro
here at work, and I can get the discussion group working at home but not on
my PC at work (I'm not even trying to publish it to the server, keeping
everything on my pc for this test).  And it doesn't work...

"Tom Pepper Willett" wrote:

> There are no 2003 server extensions. FP 2003 will work with FP 2000 and FP
> 2002 server extensions.  The discussion groups will work with FP 2000
> extenions.
> --
> ===
> Tom "Pepper" Willett
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
> ---
> About FrontPage 2003:
>   http://office.microsoft.com/home/of...etid=FX01085802
> FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
>   http://www.microsoft.com/office/fro...fo/default.mspx
> Understanding FrontPage:
>   http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...ding/frontpage/
> FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
>   http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...fh;en-us;fp10se
> ===
> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:63EF0B09-7C6B-4333-B9B1-3A5513E39BFB@microsoft.com...
> | I'm trying to set up a discussion group here at work.  The pc in my offi
ce
> is
> | running FP 2003, the server is Win 2k with 2k server extensions.
> |
> | At home I have an XP Pro operating system and front page 2003.  I can ge
t
> | discussion groups to work by developing them some where (anywhere...) an
d
> | then publishing them to local host (127.0.0.1).  No errors, everything
> works
> | like it should.
> |
> | But I'm struggling with getting the same thing going at work. I believe
> I'm
> | getting the rather vague "Cannot display page" error...
> |
> | Could this be because I'm trying to publish 2003 server extensions on a
> 200
> | server?  If so, is there a way around this?   My network manager says th
e
> | server is old and can't be upgraded to win 2003, and that Win 2000 serve
r
> | can't run 2003 server extensions.  I know software is written to be
> backwards
> | compatible, but I have the reverse situation, it may be a forward
> | compatiblity issue.
> |
> | Any thoughts?   I'd appreciate it!
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Tom
> |
>
>
>

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Try going to the FrontPage Admin web pages for the site you are trying to
publish content. check that the appropriate page types are allowed such as
asp etc. You can also try disabling the Friendly HTTP errors in your IE
browser so that you could possibly get a better error message.

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