Total newbie too ASP and PWS & IIS need some basic help

[locutus]

I have two NT workstation 4 on my desk at work. I am totally new to the world of ASP and the likes, I have only read a chapter in beginning VB6 databases about using VB6 with ASP and ADO and it was fasinating. I am now hungry to learn more.

I have installed PWS on my machine at home to do some very simple examples but now wish to use my office PC's with NT to play around with. ( they are both on the local network ) I want one PC to be the server and one to be the client. Do I need IIS 4 or 5 to be installed on the server machine or can I use PWS with NT workstation. Is IIS only for NT server or does it run on workstation too ? and how do I get IIS , is it on the NT workstation disk ? because I cant find it or do I have to buy it from MS ( how much ? )

I understand that PWS is a cut down version of IIS but not much more than that at the moment, any help with these simple questions would be great or any general advise on this matter !

Thanx
Locutus

[compuGEEK]

PWS is only available for Windows 9x platforms. You must use IIS on an NT machine.

IIS4 is available for NT 4 machines. It's part of the NT
Option Pack. IIS 5 is for Win2K Server.

You can find NT Option pack here:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/

[Mark Sreeves]

PWS is available for NT4 workstation and I have it running on my NT4 Workstation PC

It's on disk 2 of Visual Studio (98)

D:\NTOPTPAK\X86\WINNT.WKS

IIS is only for NT & Win2k Server.
PWS is also on the Win98 CD. (I think the setup program is a standard cross platform job. :) )

And for that link to the NT4 option pack you'll need to put the name of the default document on the end...for some reason you get an folder browsing access denied error...perhaps MS have inadvertantley turned off the default document for this folder? Anyho...use this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/default.asp

However it still doesn't work. :( Perhaps it's a temporary problem.

[Edited by matthewralston on 08-14-2000 at 05:04 AM]

[compuGEEK]

Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/NTOPTIONPACK/X.ASP

I won't even ask how you knew to use "X". :D

How many files!?! Blummin hell. I can't be bothered with that many links!! :p

[ttingen]

Locutus,

We meet again.

IIS comes with NT Server. So if you have a copy of NT Server you have IIS.

ASP is a cool technology. There are a lot of resources for code and samples.

Here are a couple that I've used:

http://www.freevbcode.com
http://www.aspfree.com
msdn.microsoft.com/workshop 'click on server technologies
http://www.aspin.com
http://www.aspcode.net
http://www.kamath.com
http://www.asp-zone.com

Good Books for ASP:
http://www.wrox.com


[Edited by ttingen on 08-15-2000 at 04:47 PM]