Cannot Open or Create Webs Remotely with Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to open a FrontPage Web from another computer in FrontPage, the following message appears:

The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or Web server administrator to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific information, click Details.

When you click Details, the following additional information is displayed:

Error 403.1
HTTP Error 403
403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden.
This error can be caused if you try to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed. Please contact the Web server's administrator if the problem persists.

CAUSE

The Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 95, version 4.0, which is included with the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, does not support remote authoring of FrontPage webs.

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Personal Web Server version 4.0 for Windows 95. The purpose of the inability to author against the Web server is to increase security for the Web server. Because Windows 95 and Windows 98 do not allow the user to set permissions on the local computer, the security of the Web server cannot be controlled locally. Because of this, the Microsoft Personal Web Server version 4.0 only allows users of the local computer to author on it.

The information in this article applies to:   Microsoft FrontPage 2000