IPP problem - page cannot be displayed

[Bill Fisher]

I am trying to set up my win2k pro machine as an IPP print server but
I can't get the printer web page to load,. instead, I get an http
error # 500 "page cannot be displayed".
When I browse to http://printserver/printers I get the prompt to enter
the user name and the password and then I get the above described
error.
I get this error when browsing from both the client (an xp machine)
and the server (the win2k machine).
Note that in my router setup I have forwarded TCP port # 631 to the
win2k machine.
Other web pages on this IIS server work fine. I can access them
without any problems so there is nothing wrong with my IIS setup.(or
so I think).

If anyone has some pointers i would greatly appreciate them.
bf

 

[Bill Fisher]

Fixed! Here is what I did for the benefit of others.
In the virtual directory settings, setting the application protection
to either High or Low worked and I got the page to load.
Setting it back to medium prevented the page from being loaded again.
I don't know why this is so, it may be due to some esoteric security
setting that's improperly set but if anyone has any specific ideas
please post them.


On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:51:50 GMT, Bill Fisher <nospam@somewhere.com>
wrote:

>I am trying to set up my win2k pro machine as an IPP print server but
>I can't get the printer web page to load,. instead, I get an http
>error # 500 "page cannot be displayed".
>When I browse to http://printserver/printers I get the prompt to enter
>the user name and the password and then I get the above described
>error.
>I get this error when browsing from both the client (an xp machine)
>and the server (the win2k machine).
>Note that in my router setup I have forwarded TCP port # 631 to the
>win2k machine.
>Other web pages on this IIS server work fine. I can access them
>without any problems so there is nothing wrong with my IIS setup.(or
>so I think).
>
>If anyone has some pointers i would greatly appreciate them.
>bf