One of the most common questions we get concerns confusion over Microsoft FrontPage versus FTP. FrontPage is both a website development tool and a server execution environment. As a development tool, FrontPage can be used with any website, regardless of whether it is a regular site or "FrontPage enabled".
A FrontPage enabled website adds "server extensions" to a website. These are programs that run automatically on the server and add enhanced capabilities to a FrontPage developed website. Server extensions allow using the FrontPage intelligent "publish" command to upload files instead of FTP, and allow many of the FrontPage enhanced functions to work such as searching, mailing the contents of a form, and other automated procedures which FrontPage called "webbots".
Because of the synchronized programs and files that FrontPage maintains on the server "under the covers" in private directories, if you have a FrontPage enabled website, Microsoft strongly advises against using FTP to upload files as this can confuse FrontPage and cause corruption of the website. For this reason, if FrontPage server extensions are enabled, we do not allow FTP access to the same site.
FrontPage "NTLM Authentication Failure":
If you are getting this error message trying to publish your FrontPage enabled website, then your Windows/PC is not configured properly. You need to make sure the networking client is loaded and then network logon is enabled
How to fix - Step-by-step directions:
1. Double click on my computer, control panel, Networks.
2. If Microsoft Network Client is not installed, click on add, clients, Microsoft Network Client, and then OK all of the way out. (You will most likely need to have your Windows 95 CD/Disks handy).
3. Go into your dialup networking (my computer, dial-up networking), and right click on the connection you use.
4. Select properties.
5. Click on Server Type button.
6. Check "Log onto Network"
Then click ok all of the way out. Reboot, and try it out.
