FP98: Permissions Command is Not Available on the Tools Menu

ID: Q194488

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you click the Tools menu in FrontPage Explorer, Permissions is not available (dimmed).


CAUSE

This problem occurs if any of the following are true:


RESOLUTION

To make the Permissions command available on the Tools menu, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: If You Have a Disk-based Web Open

Publish your Web to a Web server. For information about how to do this, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q194093 FP98: How to Publish a FrontPage Web to the Internet, Intranet

Method 2: If the Content Root of the IIS is on a FAT File System

Convert the file system to an NTFS file system.

WARNING: Using this method will permanently convert your system from FAT to NTFS. For more information about converting from FAT to NTFS, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q98730 Q&A: Technical Information

Q156560 Free Space Required to Convert FAT to NTFS


To convert the file system to NTFS, follow these steps:
  1. Uninstall the FrontPage Server Extensions.

    1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, and then click Windows NT Explorer.


    2. Open the Microsoft FrontPage folder. By default, FrontPage is installed in the c:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage folder.


    3. Double-click the FrontPage Server Administrator icon.


    4. In the Select Server Or Port box in the FrontPage Server Administrator dialog box, click the port that corresponds to the Internet Information Server. By default this is port 80.


    5. Click Uninstall.


    6. Click OK.




  2. Convert the file system to NTFS.

    1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, and click Command Prompt.


    2. At the command prompt, type the following command
      convert <disk>: /fs:ntfs
      where <disk> is the location where your Web server content is stored. For example if your Web server content is stored on drive D, type the following command:
      convert d: /fs:ntfs


    3. When the conversion is completed, type EXIT and press ENTER to return to Windows.




  3. Install the FrontPage Server Extensions.

    1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, and click Windows NT Explorer.


    2. Open the Microsoft FrontPage folder. By default, FrontPage is installed in the c:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage folder.


    3. Double-click the FrontPage Server Administrator icon.


    4. In the FrontPage Server Administrator dialog box, click Install.


    5. From the Server Type list, click Internet Information Server and then click OK.


    6. Click OK.


    7. After the FrontPage Server Extensions are installed, click Close.




Method 3: If FrontPage Permissions on the Server Were Disabled

You can configure the FrontPage Server Extensions not to manage the permissions on your FrontPage Webs. To enable or disable this functionality, you must edit the configuration files used by the FrontPage Server Extensions.

For more information about configuring the FrontPage Server Extensions, please see the Server Extensions Resource Kit at the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk/default.htm


MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about using permissions with FrontPage, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q151351 FP: Web Permissions Must Be Unique to Be Modified

Q170235 FP: End User Permissions Disabled on Netscape Server
For additional information about installing the FrontPage Server Extensions on Internet Information Server, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q194103 FP98: How to Install FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS

Additional query words: permissions explorer ntfs fat 


Keywords          : fpexp fpiis fpext 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 28, 1999