In the Remote Info section of the Site Definition dialog box, you have several choices for remote access, including Local/Network. With this type of access, you will also have to designate a Remote Folder, which is the folder where your site files are stored on the Web Server. The Web Server will either be mounted on a network drive or running on your local machine (for testing purposes). If the Remote folder is not enabled for sharing, however, you may not be able to transfer files to this folder.
This TechNote outlines the following steps to setup for Local/Network access. The steps assume that your machine is running Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows NT or Windows 2000.
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In Windows, browse to the Inetpub folder.
This will set the sharing permissions for the Inetpub folder and any subfolders in the Inetpub folder (including the wwwroot folder). You could also set the sharing permissions for the wwwroot folder in the Inetpub folder.
Note: This example uses the Inetpub folder that is installed with IIS or Personal Web Server and assumes that you have access to this remote folder. If you do not have access to this folder, you will have to contact the network administrator in charge of the remote server folder structure to have the correct sharing permissions set.
You should now be connected to your remote network folder. If the definition is set up incorrectly, then you will likely see an error message indicating that Dreamweaver cannot display the remote folder for the current site, as illustrated below:
If this message does appear, check to make sure that all of the above settings have been done correctly on your machine. Also, make sure the permissions are set correctly for the remote folder.
For more information about network and file permissions, please review the Windows documentation.
For more details, see How to define a site in Dreamweaver (Technote 14028) and Defining a site that uses PAS/IIS locally and FTP remotely (TechNote 15571).