When you try to publish a FrontPage Web to a Web server, you may experience one or both of the following symptoms:

You receive the following error message: Or your computer appears to stop responding (hang) during the initial publishing process.

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This problem occurs because of an interrupted connection to the server during the publishing process.

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To publish after a lost connection, you must use one or both of the following methods.

Method 1

1.	On the server, stop and restart the HTTP service.
2.	Delete the file \Web Root\Web Name\_vti_pvt\service.lck.
3.	Delete the file \Web Root\Web Name\_vti_pvt\frontpg.lck.
4.	Publish the Web.

Method 2

1.	Cancel the publishing process.
2.	Check the network connection.
3.	Start the publishing process again.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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When the connection to the server is lost during the publishing process, the Service.lck file remains in the _VTI_PVT directory of the Web.

The Service.lck and Frontpg.lck files deny the FrontPage client access to a Web on the destination server during publishing.

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