[thelist] ms access website solution?

[Ken Schaefer]

These hacks don't change the underlying abilities of the OS itself. The
registry keys in Windows NT allowed you to make the OS /think/ it was
Windows NT Server, but that didn't change the fact that Windows NT
Workstation wouldn't be able to use a 4-way or 8-way SMP machine (for
example). The article pretty much hints at this (without stating it straight
out). The article talks also about making a Windows XP Pro product "think"
it's a .Net Server (which, BTW, doesn't exist - it's Windows 2003 Server).
But, whilst you can do this, it doesn't, at all, change the abilities of the
underlying OS. IIS v5.1 doesn't (all of a sudden) acquire the IIS v6
architecture (for example).

So it's partly a cash thing - Microsoft sells a desktop product, and a
server product. If you want anything more than a small workgroup they want
you to buy a server OS. That said, the server OS does have capabilities that
the desktop OS does not, so you do get something that you don't get with
your desktop OS.

Cheers
Ken

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From: <david.landy at somerfield.co.uk>
Subject: RE: [thelist] ms access website solution?


: Very interesting... follow the story of hacks to mutate versions of
Windows
: on http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=24676
:
: D



[Richard wrote]

: Just for cash...
: When win2k came out, there've even been guides 'out there' to convert
: a Workstation to a Server to get around the limits imposed on the
: Workstation.
:
: The main difference was some settings in the registry affecting
: behaviour to the network.
:
: Maybe that has changed with 2003. That I can't tell.