Re: Wow... Windows... Looking for definitive answer
- From: Donald McDaniel <orthocross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:34:27 -0700
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:49:06 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
<newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jamieduncan66
I'm an old Mac/Linux person, and I'm used to computers doing what
I ask them to and not being rude about it. So much for that! For
reasons defying explanation here, I am now running a desktop and a
laptop with Windows XP Pro. The desktop is the machine in
question with SP2 "properly installed" per the little Update
wizard genie.
The machine is an HP-Compaq, 2.53 ghz P4. I have the proper OS
disk provided by HP.
My problem:
I want to install IIS. When I go to do this through the Control
Panels (or through the CD autostart menu) it starts to copy the
files and then says to install the cd b/c it can't find a file. I
browse to that folder and lo and behold, THERE'S THE FILE IT'S
LOOKING FOR. It doesn't care, apparently that's not the one it
wants.
So I download Nlite (per some discussion board researd), and I
stripsleam in SP2 (the entire 266 MB download!). Thinking my
problem is solved, and I can install IIS and get on with my life,
I make a cd. It appears to work perfectly.
I ask it to install IIS (very nicely I might add)...
EXACT SAME PROBLEM.
OK, so what's the deal here? I've been out of the Microsoft loop
for too long to troubleshoot ignorance at this level. Can someone
up to date on this stuff give me a hand?
Thanks!!
Donald McDaniel wrote:
I have been told (more than once) by so-called MVPs, that IIS can
only be installed in XP Professional. If your HP-Compaq OEM of XP
is Home Edition, you will not be able to install IIS. This may be
because Home Edition is unable to join a domain. Or it may be some
other reason.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
First off - what does XP Home have to do with this thread? Third
sentence says, "... I am now running a desktop and a laptop with
Windows XP Pro..." That pretty much eliminates the need for any
discussion about Windows XP Home Edition in this thread.
Secondly - a simple google search will show that the answer to the
"Can I install IIS on Windows XP Home Edition" is actually no..
with caveats. In fact I answered this question for someone in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general 3 days ago.. with:
-----
A *sure* way? No.
You could use some other web server software - but IIS is a
"professional" product.. Available on Windows XP Professional and
Windows server products. It is *not* available for Windows XP Home
Edition.
You can try one of the many sites (Google is great - should try
it!) that claim to have the answer you seek, for example:
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm
or
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Q_20844896.html
Otherwise, you could use something like Apache or one of the many
other web servers out there. Last I read, Apache did not DIRECTLY
support ASP, but with the correct "add-on", it supports it as well
as IIS.
ChiliASP
http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.html
Apache::ASP
http://www.apache-asp.org/
mod_mono
http://go-mono.com/archive/xsp-0.10.html
-----
So, the complete answer for your complaint/issue (that you included
in this thread for some reason) is the above. It really has
nothing to do with its ability to join a domain. It's just a
limitation of Windows XP Home.
Donald McDaniel wrote:
Why are you such a gloomy-gus, Mr. Stanley?
Are you jealous because someone other than yourself made an attempt
to help someone out or give them necessary information?
Or didn't you like my English for some reason or another? (by the
way, I don't suppose you saw my use of "if", did you? I guess not).
Or do I have a foul odor or something?
Anyway, thanks for your "correction". Now I know what I already
knew: that "ISS is a Professional application, and can only be
installed in XP Professional, with reservations". I guess that's
somehow different than my "If [notice the "if" here] your
HP-Compaq OEM is XP Home Edition, you will not be able to install
IIS, since it can only be installed on XP Professional. I think
this may have to do with Home's inability to join a domain. Or it
may be for another reason" (this is more of a paraphrase than a
quote, since I don't have much of a memory for "word-for-word"
quoting.
Anyway, I misread the OPs use of "Windows XP Pro" for Windows XP
Home". My mistake, for which, I am sure, I will have to suffer
countless years of "purging of venial sins" in Microsoft Purgatory
after I die. God, I hope the demons are all Mac Fanatics, since Mac
Fanatics tend to be a bunch of idiots anyway.
I simply corrected your honest mistake - quoted the entirety of the thread
up to that point - and even made sure that *if*, since this is archived for
all to see for many years to come, anyone needed to know the answer to the
question you had added to the thread - they now had it.
I saw your *if* and I noted your condescending attitude from the beginning.
All I did was give a complete answer to your line of the thread.
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
Shenan, I do admit that my last response was rather condescending.
That was my intent.
However, my response to the OP was an honest effort to help him/her
out.
Anyway, please forgive me for my condescending response. It was kind
of out of line.
My only excuse was that I had just come out of a Mac advocacy group,
and was "looking for bear", so to speak.
==
Donald L McDaniel
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