Frontpage databse connection error

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Mike Kremer

I have a site hosted by DigitaliBiz. I used the site administration tool to
create an Access DB and a DSN. I then went through Frontpage 2003 to make a
connection as follows:

Go to Tools | Site Settings and click the Database tab. click Add, select
either File or folder in current web site or System data source on web
server, then click Browse.

The result is an error dialog and no way to browse to either the DSN or the
Access database on the web server. the error dialog states: "An error
occured accessing your Windows Sharepoint Services site files. Authors - if
authoring against a web server, please contact the Webmaster for this
server's web site. Webmasters - please see the server's application event
log for more details."

This is NOT a Windows Sharepoint Services web server, but it does have the
FP server extensions.

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any help or suggestions!

-Mike
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Stefan B Rusynko

You can't browse for the DSN on a hosted online server
(that would be a security violation for any DSN on the server)
- you need to know what it is from your host where you created it, and just type it in exactly the way it is defined by them

You can only browse for the DSN on your PC if you are also running the site under IIS (and the FP SE) and have also created the same
DSN on your OS using Control panel - Data Sources (ODBC)

- Ignore any references to WSS since they mean FP SE
(FP error messages for the FP SE generically use WSS as a term since they are also used under WSS)




|I have a site hosted by DigitaliBiz. I used the site administration tool to
| create an Access DB and a DSN. I then went through Frontpage 2003 to make a
| connection as follows:
|
| Go to Tools | Site Settings and click the Database tab. click Add, select
| either File or folder in current web site or System data source on web
| server, then click Browse.
|
| The result is an error dialog and no way to browse to either the DSN or the
| Access database on the web server. the error dialog states: "An error
| occured accessing your Windows Sharepoint Services site files. Authors - if
| authoring against a web server, please contact the Webmaster for this
| server's web site. Webmasters - please see the server's application event
| log for more details."
|
| This is NOT a Windows Sharepoint Services web server, but it does have the
| FP server extensions.
|
| Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any help or suggestions!
|
| -Mike
| --
|
 
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