I want to hook my VS into IIS to manage a website running locally on my Server 2003 computer. The best way to do this seems be using FP extensions still. As when trying to connect to a 'local' website VS always wants to use localhost as the identifier.

When I try to connect to my local website using VS and FP extensions at the site's ip address, it works fine. But if I try to connect using a domain I created to resolve to the site's ip address, I can't get authorization. It doesn't say that my authorization failed, it just doesn't get past the login window and stays there indefinitely. It looks like it checks the credentials once but doesn't show an access denied message.

Why do my login credentials (administrator) work when connecting to the site by ip but not by a domain I made. The server is running DNS but not active directory, and the domain is set up as a forward lookup locally on the Server.

Permissions weirdness? How would I best go about troubleshooting this problem?

Thanks for your time,

bd