Hi Frank et al...
>Personally, I wouldn't use NT Workstation as an e-mail server OS. NT Server
>is the only way to go doe something like this. NT Workstation was not
>designed as a server platform and there are differences and limitations in
>some of the core files.
I'm sure win2000 server and workstation are different. There has been
disagreement about the amount of difference in NT products,
especially when one is not serving MicroSoft software (ie, not using
IIS, no domain users/controllers, etc). The following article from
1996 is still online, as are others dealing with the minimal
differences.
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/news/0902/06ent.html
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/96/31/i02-31.41.htm
tom
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PCWeek September 6, 1996 6:40 PM ET
Simple way found to turn NT Workstation into Server
By Eamonn Sullivan
What really separates Windows NT Server 4.0 from Windows NT
Workstation 4.0? Less than you'd think, apparently.
Microsoft Corp. claims the Server and Workstation versions of its
Windows NT operating system are designed differently and specifically
tuned for different tasks, but, according to a study to be released
Monday, two simple changes to Windows NT's Registry (where
configuration information is stored) are all that are needed to
change an NT Workstation to an NT Server.
O'Reilly and Associates, a Sebastopol, Calif., publishing and
software development company that has butted heads with Microsoft
recently over the licensing restrictions in Windows NT Workstation
4.0, will post an article Monday at http://software.ora.com/news
detailing the results of research done by Mark Russinovich, a
consulting associate for Open Systems Resources Inc.
Officials of Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., could not be reached for
comment Friday.
According to Andrew Schulman, a senior editor at O'Reilly,
Russinovich discovered that a single undocumented-but easily
accessible-Registry setting was all that separated the Server and
Workstation versions of Windows NT 3.51. In Version 4.0, two registry
settings are needed, and Microsoft has gone to some effort to hide
those registry settings. The settings are accessible, however, with a
little bit of programming.
Other than those settings, the only differences between Workstation
and Server are the bundled programs, such as Internet Information
Server, a Domain Naming System administration tool, and utilities for
managing NT-based networks. The kernel files, such as NTOSKRNL.EXE,
KERNEL32.DLL, HAL.DLL, SRV.SYS and TCPIP.SYS, are identical in
Workstation and Server, Schulman said.
PC Week Labs tested a utility written by Russinovich that changes
the settings he discovered. It works.
O'Reilly officials said they do not plan to release the utility.
"We don't want to encourage individuals to break their license
agreement," Schulman said. "We want Microsoft to change its policy."
When PC Week Labs ran the utility on Windows NT Workstation 4.0, NT
displayed a dialog box that warned us that we were violating the
license agreement.
"The system has detected tampering with your registered product
type," the dialog box said. "This is a violation of your software
license. Tampering with [sic] product type is not permitted."
Once we ran the utility, however, and rebooted the system, Windows
NT Workstation became Server, right down to the product type
displayed on the system "Start" menu. Microsoft applications that are
designed to run only on Server, such as BackOffice and Internet
Information Server, installed and ran.
Two weeks ago, we had tested the difference in performance between
NT Workstation and Server by running Netscape Communications Corp.'s
Enterprise Server 2.0 on both products. There was a performance
difference. Enterprise Server was able to serve about 140 connections
per second on NT Server, but only about 120 connections per second on
Workstation. Once we ran the utility, however, the performance
difference disappeared.
O'Reilly, which makes the popular WebSite Web server, and other
makers of third-party Web software for Windows NT, including
Netscape, has been fighting with Microsoft over the license for
Windows NT Workstation 4.0, which prohibits using Workstation as a
dedicated Web server for more than 10 users at a time.
To run a dedicated Web server, Microsoft said customers must run NT
Server, which includes Microsoft's own Web server, Internet
Information Server.
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