For some reason I am having a problem getting an answer off the internet to an issue I am having with my HP Media Smart Server (essentially Microsoft Home Server). Given I know there are some computer experts on the board, I thought I'd pose the question here.

When I use remote web access with the server, the connection times out at about 20 minutes; this is not a problem when I connect to it from within the network I have set up at home. I vaguely remember hearing about the time out after 20 minutes (designed as a security measure, I guess like when you access a bank account on the web for too long) and hearing there is a fix that allows one to specify the amount of time before the connection times out.

Does anyone know about this issue and how to set a longer interval before the remote connection to the server times out?

FINALLY! I found an article that seems to address the problem. Hopefully, this will do the trick.

http://mswhs.com/2007/10/30/remote-access-timeout/

Laguy, in the IIS web server there are 2 timeout values at play - there's one in Machine.Config (which is the default for all websites on the machine), and there's the setting you've discovered in web.config (which is website specific - and overrides the machine.config setting). Looks like you've already discovered Microsoft's lovely 20 minute default setting.