locked out of localhost

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LaRue05

Yeah so I just got done making some changes to my web.

And now when I try to open up my localhost in FP it's asking me for a login.

I run all the testing off my laptop and none of my passwords are working for
this login.

What's the deal?

Mike
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

Are you running Win XP Pro or Win 2000 Pro? If so, open the Internet
Information Services MMC through Control Panel | Administrative Tools |
Internet Information Services. Browse through the nodes to the Default Web
Site node. Then right-click on it and select New | Server Extensions
Administrator. Then type in the name of a local user account. Then
right-click on the Default Web Site node again and select Tasks | Check
Server Extensions. FP gets all it's user information from the file system so
if, for some reason, the ACL descriptors that hold the user access rights
for a directory or file become changed (sometimes this happens all on their
own it seems) then FP can't log you in properly since IIS and Windows won't
let you. You may have to tweak with the ACLs by hand if this doesn't work
and apply the correct account with enough permissions on the Inetpub\wwroot
directory to regain access.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
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