On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:50:17 -0700, Sharon Fling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone had problems running CF 4.5 on a W2K workstation? I'm
>new to W2k and when I tried to get CF going, found that I
>couldn't use Personal Web Server, but was told that I had to run
>IIS. But IIS turned my machine into a true web server,
>broadcasting to the Internet, and I couldn't seem to turn it off
>and still get CF server to run. I ended up going back to my old
>development machine for my CF work and using the other machine
>for everything else. I'm a little afraid to try the install on
>the W2K machine again because right after I installed the CF 4.5
>upgrade, the system hung and I ended up having to re-install
>Windows 2000 again. But I'd like to consolidate onto the W2K
>machine and free up the old machine, so perhaps I'll try again.
>So can someone tell me the optimal configuration for running CF
>with Windows 2000? Which version of CF? I have 4.0, the CF 4.5
>upgrade, and getting 5.0 in a couple of weeks. I have IIS of
>course, but am concerned about being hacked. Has anyone used PWS
>with W2K? Thanks, I'd appreciate any help I can get!
If you are using Win2K Professional, the IIS that it comes with is not
the full version of IIS, but a cut down version which is essentially the
same as PWS (only not quite so crap :)). You can use a thirdparty
firewall, or simply disable anonymous access to sites running on it.
HTH,
K.
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