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You can setup a VPN server on XP, I did it and it worked http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=608&page=5

I did a bit of searching around later, and It was mentioned somewhere in the IIS help file, but it said something along the line that you can't do it in the IIS console but have to use VBScripting instead... well OK, I guess I can either learn VBScipt just to open some passive ports, or use Serv-U FTP instead which is what I am using now on XP (and it has more features) I am new to IIS so I really don't get all these FTP, SMTP, POP, and Web server configurations. Corrently, for FTP I use Serv-U FTP which is feature rich and very easy to configure, I use ArGoSoft Mail Server, which is good as well. I use Apache web server and the config file is not difficult to set up. But, IIS, to start with, Why is the SMTP and POP console seperated? it is so strange I can setup an account for SMTP but then that account is not automatically set up for POP. IIS FTP is basic at best, I can't configure passive mode etc etc One of my biggest problem is why does everything has to go thru Windows user accounts? Why can't I have FTP or SMTP user that is not an user of the Windows system or the domain? I just want to set some **** user names and passwords! sorry about my ranting, I will shut up now.

Hi all, I am trying to setup a FTP server using IIS and W2K3, my server is curren;t behind firewall, so I think I need to set up a range of Ports for passive FTP mode. The problem is in the IIS management console, I only see the option for the main port but not for passive mode? Am I missing something? Thanks

Hi all, Sorry for a long post about a minor issue of mine This is the first time I am here, I think the MSFN's guide on how to use W2K3 as workstation is great. Anyway I am trying to upgrade my net server to W2k3, I am using WinXP at the moment. I was trying to get the nice little powertoys for XP to install on 2003 (actually I only want HTML slide show generator and Image resizer) but they all refuse to install, saing I am using wrong OS.... I then got HTML slide shoe generator working by just running its exe. But I chouldn't figure out how to use "phototoy.dll" as rundll32 didn't do much (the dll use by Image Resizer) I think something's up in the installer script, so I downloaded WiX (first microsoft opensource project! it is for compiling / decompiling MSI installer packages) and took a look at Image Resizer's install script, it turned out it has the OS version limit hard coded (501) so I changed it to 502 (I guess that's win 2003) and re-compile, and finally I got it to work/install in w2k3. I put my "hacked" msi installer here in a rar file Wayne