is there a trick to publishing to a subdomain (company.rootdomain.com) with Microsoft FrontPage? i get the following error message:

"An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters - please see the server's system log for more details."

Does this mean that i have to give him MS FP access to the root domain to publish to the subdomain?

yes

ok so i asked a yes/no question so i guess i deserve a yes/no answer......

please tell me how to publish to a subdomain with MS FrontPage.

No, you should *not* have to do this. You will have to enable FrontPage on the subdomain (set up the subdomain on the server of course), and enable it for the username that will be uploading.

let me see if i have this straight. instead of using 'webmaster' and the password for webmaster to publish to a subdomain with MS FP i would set up an admin user and have that person publish with the username and password that go with admin user account.

will this publish to the root web directory or the user web directory?

Step by step:

Create the site on the server (company.rootdomain.com).
Enable FrontPage for this site.
Create a username (siteadmin) for this site and enable FrontPage for them, set 'webmaster' password.

Make sure in FrontPage that their Remote Starting Directory is set to /web.

If they upload their site, yet do *not* see it when they type in company.rootdomain.com (assuming DNS and other issues aren't a factor), then warn them to check:

company.rootdomain.com/~theirusername and if they see the site, then they did *not* specifiy a Remote Starting Directory and they uploaded to the user directory, not the site directory.

I have a FrontPage enabled site that published fine for some time, then gave me the error mentioned above. I don't remember doing anything that would cause ownership or permissions to change. Any idea what would cause the sudden error or what I should do about it? (I'm really more concerned about preventing it from happening again, but understanding it might get me there.)

Should I just just reinstall the extensions?

[edited for a typo and clarity]

an unwelcomed tip: do not use FrontPage...
Honestly, is FTP that bad? You avoid sooo many problems using the conventional methods.

:puke: FRONTPAGE

Nothing wrong with FTP. I maintain several other sites that way. If I keep having problems with FrontPage, then I'll just turn my shared borders into SSIs. Unfortunately, that would only solve a small part of the problem. I have customers that pretty much depend on FrontPage, so I'll still need to fix their problems. I'd like to keep them as customers.

I'd try removing the ability for the user to publish with FP, then remove the extensions and reinstall them, yes. I've never used FP, but have set it up for others on the server.