Network Question

[Jonathan Hutchins]

---- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Coleman" <mkc at mathdogs.com>
To: "Eric Rossiter" <rossiter at discoverynet.com>

> If you're not [running IIS], you should be okay.  But be sure you're
not--I thought I read
> somewhere that W2K server ran one by default or something.  Of course,
there's
> quite a collection of other viruses and worms you can catch via Windows.
:-(

In their push to "integrate" Internet Explorer, MS started doing everything
via web browser, including all the configuration/wizard pages for the
various servers.  Sure, you can run an Exchange 5.5 server without IE
loaded - but you can't install Norton Anti-Virus for Exchange, because the
configuration has to be done through the web interface.

(Oh, and by the way, don't expect to be able to run a PDC, WINS server,
Exchange Server, and IIS on the same machine unless you've got some pretty
serious hardware.)

Microsoft isn't alone in this - there are a number of Linux packages that
are doing the exact same thing, using HTTP interfaces as the _only_ control
interface.  Most currently act as their own server and serve a port other
than 80 (http default), but some require a full Apache or other
configuration even though you might not be doing anything related to the
web.