IIS 5.1 & FileSystemObject

im using IIS 5.1 running on my home computer, i perfer apache but now that i've learned asp i cant use apache. so i put the IIS server on, its been a couple months and i have 2 really big problems. first off i cant use any type of FileSystemObject? the page just sits there saying loading until it times out, i tried upping the timeout time but doens't help. why can i use FileSystemObject?
and another big problem, everyonce and a while my server seems like its shut down, if i go to my site, it says "page cannot be displayed" like its not turned on. i go to my inetmgr and i have to stop the server and restart it, and it works again. i think it happens when more than one person goes to my site at one time. im really dissapointed with the IIS server. is there anyway to fix these problems? is so i'd would be a huge asset to my site.

Without knowing more about what exactly your problem is with the filesystemobject, we can't really help you. Post some code and we'll see what we can do.

Ditto for your other problem. Sounds like you might have some buggy code that is crashing IIS.

actually i did some research and my two problems aren't that uncommon, its not the code but the actual IIS thats fudging up. i have IIS 5.1 which comes with windows xp professional. and its hardcoded to allow only 10 users on at a time so if i refresh my page 10 times (or if anyone else does) it will crash. and the problem with the filesystemobject was fixed. this may help any of you with this problem. if your running Norton Antivirus, theres a section called "script blocking" which blocks out dangerous script, and since the file system object is logging onto my pc to get information Norton see's it as a problem and blocks access. so i turned that one fuction off and file system object works fine.

I ran XP (IIS5.1) on a dev machine for about 6 months and don't recall it evern crashing. From memory, a message popped up, something like that.... but it never crashed. Check your Event logs.

By the way, you should be able to change the number of connections to 40, via the MetaBase (google it).

thx man, that meta base thing worked great, i set the max connections to -1 so its unlimited, is that to much? should i lower it a bit? and if so... how much?

http://www.iis-resources.com/module...=71&forum=4#656

BTW - thanks for the info on the FSO/Norton thing - that's definately worth remembering! Those things are a pain to track down.