I have a problem. When I click Component Services, My Computer does not shows up. Instead I get the following error: "The server catalog version is not supported. The catalog is either newer or older than this application and a common version for communication does not exist." Is there a solut...more >>

Hello, Can anyone tell me if there is a way to create a different home directory for a particular user, and have that directory and that directory only be accessable to them? I am running IIS 5.0. I can create a directory in my FTP Root as the only one with access, but I don't even want them ...more >>

I'm new to setting up web servers and have a few questions. Right now all I have is a router with a port forwarded to my server. It works great. What are the best practices for web servers? Should I put it on an Active Directory domain, or leave it how it is? I also want to put an Exchange ...more >>

Could someone help? I have been trying to access the below site for several weeks - without success. I just keep getting a message that says: The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties,...more >>

We have installed an application that uses .exe CGI files. IIS is giving a 404 page not found error for the webui.exe. I have added script and executable permissions to that dir. What else do I have to do. Thanks Jon ...more >>

Hi there, I am using W2K server with IIS and I have a directory with both anonymous and integrated windows authentication. Some web pages contain a link to a Word document. Users from our subnet and NT4 domain are able to access it but users from other subnets and different NT4 domains are ...more >>

My IIS 4 server stopped serving ASP pages again. This time the symptoms were not the same. The Inetinfo.exe process was not consuming 100% cpu usage as it had been during the failure of serving ASP pages before the upgrade of MDAC to version 2.8. I looked through the logs and found what I bel...more >>

Hi There. I have recently inherited a fairly large shared web hosting platform, which, amo other features, allows customers to place access databses in their web sites, and then read / write data to them via DNS / Dsn-Les connections. However, a security problem became apaprent to me: If an...more >>

I am a new IISState user. I found out about it while doing a search to find out why IIS keeps hanging. I hope someone here can help me with interpreting the log files. Here is the Log file for the IIS App that keeps hanging. If you need more information, let me know. ******************...more >>

in iis mmc the virtual smtp server stuff to set properties is no longer there... at first i installed an active directory integrated install of the pop3 mail service. i decided this is not what i want. and uninstalled it then reinstalled it with encrypted password file. now the virutal smt...more >>

Hi there, I just created a virtual directory in II6 (Windows Server 2003) but when I try to access my web site it gives me the error as mentioned below. I've done this thing 1000 times in IIS 5(windows 2000) but have no idea why it does not work with II6 For test I had 2 files o...more >>

We've set up a server with an SSL security certificate that covers the entire server. The url we're using used to belong to another department, and they want us to redirect their traffic. I've set up the index page with a redirect in the header. Problem: to access the url, you have to type in...more >>

Hello: I am running IE5.2.3 on MAC OSX. Everytime I set my Preferences (ie, cookies or auto profiler), these values are not retained when I launch a new browser window. I've tried to reinstall IE, but the same thing happens again. Any help would be appreciated, thanks....more >>

For some reason unknown to me I am suddenly unable to upen up a website using my internet browser and make changes to an existing website. When I type in the appropriate ip address and enter the correct port number and ultimately enter my user name and password, I am able to get the openi...more >>

hello everyone, i'm new to windows 2003 server and iis 6.0, i made a complete windows update and it has installed sharepoint portal server. everything goes well, but now i had something that seems to me a problem: when a type http://myserver it appears the sharepoint site instead the default we...more >>

I have a really stupid question, probably easily answered by an IIS 6.0 book which I don't have. In IIS 6.0, there appear to be 2 kinds of Virtual Directory. One looks like a yellow gear and one likes like a folder with a globe on it. When I add a virtual directory, IIS creates the kind with t...more >>

friends i have a server based on windows 2000 server with ms sbs. when it is restarted IIS default web site fails to start. if i try to start it using IIS Admin it says port already in use. if i change the port to some other value than default (80) it works fine. even viewer show...more >>

Hi, Every few days, all my ASP scripts suddenly quit working - I get a generic "The page can not be displayed" error. Meanwhile, my HTML pages and Perl scripts continue to work just fine. When the ASP pages quit responding, there is no peak in CPU or memory usage, nor anything else to ...more >>

Hello, My application is session state enabled under IIS 5.0. I have a question about IIS sessions : Is it possible to retrieve the IIS sessions that are created on the server using ASP ? I think that it is not possible but I would want a confirmation to be sure. Thanks, Bob. ...more >>

Hi, I asked a question in this newsgroup a couple of days ago. Where we are migrating our ASP with a Access Database backend from a Windows 2000 Server IIS 5.0 to Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 The performance on the 2003 for the same web pages are extremly slow. We have been playing with the fo...more >>

Hey all, Just wanted to know how I can make "mail.website.net" forward to "mail.website.net/exchange". I just want to know how I can add that in, I was pretty sure there was a way...something to do with http headers or whatnot. This is an Exchange 2003 OWA site. Michael Sainz ...more >>

Can I host 2 web sites on the same server and make them run in their own memory space? If so, how? Background information: The first site is for data entry and the other is for reporting. When large reports are run I don't want the data entry blocked. Thanks. ...more >>

Any ideas what this is about? and what the consequences of it are? Event Type: Warning Event Source: Perflib Event Category: None Event ID: 2003 Date: 10/31/2003 Time: 4:12:33 AM User: N/A Computer: ENSIM Description: The configuration information of the performance library "C:\WINDO...more >>

Helo, Wondering what this error is and whether it is a problem? If it is a problem on a machine running IIS6 do you how to fix this? Thanks Robbie Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event Category: None Event ID: 2265 Date: 10/31/2003 Time: 4:13:46 AM User: N/A Compute...more >>

Hi, How do I go about having 2 or 3 machines running IIS behind window 2000 server on the same public IP (i.e accessible from net) ? CURRENT SETUP Net connection to router - router ports as follows: 1 port goes to existing IIS on window 2000 pro. 1 port goes to firewall and internal LAN. ...more >>

Hi All, I have a couple of questions regarding Certificates. If you use Microsoft Certificate Services to issue a Web Server Certificate (Machine A) from the IIS Server Certificate Wizard it installs the Web Server certificate. By Moving it to the correct local machine/Personal folder ...more >>

Please, i have some ASP websites that retrieves data from an Oracle Database through ODBC. The problem is that the DLLHOST is using lot of memory and my IIS crashes. Any idea? Tks Fabiano ...more >>

Hello, We are having some issues when going across a proxy server to a IIS server using NTLM. We get a pop up box rather than the server just authenticating? Do you guys have some pointers on NTLM and IIS and Proxies? Thanks for your insights. Mike...more >>

I have created an intranet site for my organization. user has to go through NT Domain login process to enter the site. I do not want to use IIS provided Windows Integrated Authentication or Basic Authentication process to handle this login process. I am using ADSI object for authenticatio...more >>

Can I setup my IIS boxes to each host the same copy of a website so if one server is rebooted the other can answer? ...more >>

Hi, We have recently installed winxp professional successfully. When trying to instal IIS the file "IIS_vbob055w.htm" is not found, so we are forced to quit the installation of IIS. Has someone expierenced this problem or do I miss something ? TIA, Marc De Schaepmeester Belgium ...more >>

Hi folks: running XP professional Have a router sharing internet connection Router has DHCP enabled. My main dev machine has IP address of 192.168.2.40 according to my MN700 base station and network settings info. I can type the following into IE browser: http://localhost/default.htm...more >>

Hello all, here's my dilemna. I'm having a hard time finding a script to handle mapping domains on my Windows 2003 server. I know how to setup the subdomains by hand mind you; but I just can't find a script that will automatically generate the subdomains and map them for me to a specific directo...more >>

Hi there, Are their any know issues with IIS 6.0 and progressive downloads of the following file formats - 3gp and MP4? Alex...more >>

Hi I am running on win2k SP4 IIS5 on an IBM X130 web server. We have a service that runs for a few hours and then stops, when I click on the control in IIS to select "stop" I receive a message "Could not stop the service app on local computer, Tne service did not return an error this could ...more >>

Hi I am running on win2k SP4 IIS5 on an IBM X130 web server. We have a service that runs for a few hours and then stops, when I click on the control in IIS to select "stop" I receive a message "Could not stop the service app on local computer, Tne service did not return an error this could ...more >>

I have problems with server 2003 and IIS6.0 I uploaded office files,such as file.xls, to a shared hosting website(server 2003+IIS6.0) however when a visitor tries to access the file and his PC OS is a non- Server 2003, the server will prompt him to enter password. He may cancel and another ...more >>

I have a local server on a small network that I would like to publish a site to. this site was built with FrontPage but when I try to publish, it just keeps asking for my password and username. Do I need to share the folder where the site is located? It must be a permission problem but I am not...more >>

Anyone currently using this MS tool for parsing MBSACLI (HFnetChk) and/or QFECheck logs, in addition to SUS/IIS logs? I'm thinking I'd like to use Log Parser to scan these types of logs and dump to SQL/Access for patch validation and tracking purposes. HP ...more >>

Hi all, I just installed iis in windows 2000 professinal and does not work. I checked the event view, the latest error info is: Source: service control manager. event id: 7024. Description: The distributed transaction coordinator service terminated with servic-specific error 3221229...more >>

Hi All; My computer has an error 0xffe2740 after restart IIS service in XP Pro and can not be start. Any information to solve this problem are welcome :-) Thanks...more >>

Hi, Can someone help with this iisstate log? We are constantly having to reboot this server because of slow response times and pages timing out. Here is the log, the server is windows 2000 sp2, IIS 5.0, MDAC 2.5. The first log was run just after a reboot, the second was run just before a ...more >>

Hi. I would like to hear what you say it it you reccomend as max Current Http Connections and Max reccomended Webs for this specifications as it all depends on the webs.. there for i ask for both .. as oftcourse one web could be inuff and in the other hand 1000 not ( depends on the load ): ...more >>

What is a practical number of web sites that can be hosted on a single server (dual xeon, windows 2003 standard)? What is a practical number of web sites that can be handled by a T1 connection? Pete http://www.Pistoleer.com - Retail & Wholesale (PH/FX 618-288-4588) ________________________...more >>

I removed and re installed the IIS services. checked the default page. I can view from the network and can even access the ftp but could not access it from outside the network. I can even ping it and have confirm all my settings but no luck. running win xp Any advice?...more >>

Hi all, I am struggling with the following problem: I have an ASP application which generates HTML. However the HTML does not always render on IE6. When requesting new pages from the ASP application before the current one has fully loaded and rendered the following problem occurs: only the va...more >>

The web server is Win2k SP4, IIS 5 and is a member server in a native Win2k AD. The server was installed about two years ago and was formerly an NT4 domain member. When I first set it up I removed a number of unused extension mappings, but .asp is still mapped to asp.dll. Thanks. ...more >>

This is very strange. I installed the IIS portion of Windows XP Professional. //localhost works (i.e. displayed the you dont have a webpage message) WWW Service present and started SMTP Service present and started IIS Admin Service present and started But start-->run-->inetmgr does ...more >>

According to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305313 regarding IIS5 configuration: --- Yet another setting that you can adjust is the maximum connection queue length for HTTP keep-alives; by exceeding the default setting of 15, you can extend the number of cl...more >>

having problems viewing my website properly over the internet - none of the images or flash are seen?? all text on html is viewable!! view the pages through localhost or over the lan and there is no problem!!!!! any ideas anyone??? many thanks dave C ...more >>