Re: Somewhat off topic: problem accessing internal web site

["Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>]

> Hello.
>
> I'm currently working on creating an online style guide for our company.
> My
> first task was to create a possible Contents page for the style guide in
> HTML. Ok, so far so good, even for a novice. When I was finished, I tried
> accessing our internal documentation group's web page to see where I can
> put
> this information and to find some links to add to my project. Well, I
> can't
> access our web page through Internet Explorer (or Opera which I loaded
> just
> to see if another browser might work). I can, however, access the page if
> I
> go through Windows Explorer, locate the network directory, and click on
> the
> index.htm file. From there, I can navigate just fine.
>
>
> Thanks for any information you can give me.
>
> Dina L. Marroquin
>
Not knowing your configuration and location of files, I'm guessing that the
web page on is a machine other than yours.  I'm also guessing that you are
attempting to access the page as a intranet page (i.e. as http:
//nodename/directory/page.htm).  Because you can load the page as a file,
you could try the file->open>\\nodename\directory\page.htm.

I'm also suspecting that problem could be one of the following:

-  You are not recognized as a valid user on the server machine.
-  The directory on the server has an alias (which means you must
   use the alias not the actual directory name/path)
-  The particular web root directory has restricted privileges
   (configurable through IIS or whatever the server management
   software is)
-  Try adding the server address to your LMHosts file and then
    executing an NBTstat -R command to purge and reload the remote
    cache name table (however, because you can mount the drive, I
    don't think this will do much).

Mike

Michael Wing (mailto:mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Staff Writer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama
http://maps.intergraph.com


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