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Q155770: FP: Registration Form not Supported on IIS Web Server

Article: Q155770
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): ; MACINTOSH:1.0; WINDOWS:1.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage kbdta
Last Modified: 08-NOV-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack 
- Microsoft FrontPage for Windows 1.1 
- Microsoft FrontPage for the Macintosh, version 1.0 
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For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see Q208637.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see Q194452.

SYMPTOMS
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If you try to use the FrontPage Registration WebBot in on a Web site running the
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) or Microsoft Personal Web Server,
you may receive the following error message when viewing the properties of the
page:

  This server does not support registered end users.

CAUSE
=====

Internet Information Server and Microsoft Personal Web Server do not allow users
to register through a browser for access to a Web.

MORE INFORMATION
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IIS requires that all users, authors, and administrators of a FrontPage Web have
valid Windows NT accounts. User accounts can only be created by a Windows NT
administrator using User Manager. The HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) does
not support creating user accounts.

When you create a registration Web, you ask the server to create and update a
list of registered users based on input from HTTP browsers. IIS is not designed
to support the creation of registered users without creating a corresponding
Windows NT account.

For additional information about how to create a registration page for use with
Web servers that support this feature, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q143092 FP: How to Create a Registration Web

Additional query words: logon restricted restrict security

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Keywords          : kbusage kbdta 
Technology        : kbHWMAC kbOSMAC kbFrontPageSearch kbZNotKeyword8 kbZNotKeyword kbFrontPage1xSearch kbFrontPage97Search kbFrontPageMac kbZNotKeyword3 kbFrontPage110
Version           : :; MACINTOSH:1.0; WINDOWS:1.1
Hardware          : x86

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