NT 4.0 or NT4.0 Server?

[Paul Hollands]

Wasn't there talk of the the Workstation only allowing ten simultaneous
connections and hence rendering it useless as a platform for web serving? I
believe that Microsoft finally relented and have changed this policy but I
would check the conditions very carefully before purchasing.

Nice to see you managed to resist mentioning the L word until you got to the
last paragraph Jim'll.

At 01:51 13/12/96 -0800, Jon Knight wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Mike Dargan wrote:
>>          Is it true that IIS runs on NT 4.0?  And, if so, is there
>>          anyone on the list who could share experiences with such a
>>          system?
>
>WindowsNT 4.0 workstation actually has an identical kernel to WindowsNT
>4.0 server.  The different between the two products is two registry
>settings, a bundle of Internet software with Server (such as IIS) and a
>larger price tag on the server product.  Microsoft claimed over 700
>changes in the server over the workstation but backed down somewhat after
>an NT expert showed how to "convert" a WinNT workstation into a WinNT
>server by changing the two registry settings.  However, Microsoft's
>license is designed to scupper doing this tweaking legally.
>
>On a personal level, I wouldn't go for IIS as its had some nasty security
>holes found in it in the past and I've also recently discovered that it 
>has this nasty habit of not redirecting clients to directories if they
>forget the trailing slash (which had me really confused when trying out a 
>friends web site for him). If you're committed to WinNT, I'd go with the
>Netscape server.  However my platform of choice is still Linux with an
>Apache server; its free, has better support, is more popular on the
>Internet, can easily be remotely administrated and works well.
>
>Tatty bye,
>
>Jim'll
>
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