We’ve been using our desktop (Windows 2000) to do various testing in preparation to actual development. It now would be great is we could also get our laptop into the act but it has an Windows XP (home) operating system.

Question, could pMachine be installed on this laptop and be used in a test environment basically as a server?

Thanks

So long as you set up the machine to act as a server meeting the requirements, then pMachine should run fine.

If you’re really meaning to ask “am I allowed to do that according to the license”, then the answer is: yes, so long as the development environment isn’t publicly accessible.

I’m asking if, to your knwledge, I can use Windows XP the same way I’m using Windows 2000.

At this point, I see little evidence that IIS is available for XP. Further, once I started looking at Windows 2000 I found ‘Nethood’ and ‘MyWeb . . .’ in the Documents and Settings folder under my sign on. I may have miss it on XP but the structure seems entirely different.

I am glad there are no license issuse. I had not reached that consideration yet but I’m sure that would have been next.

Thanks for your reply.

I don’t know if IIS is available or not.  Frankly, I wouldn’t recommend IIS anyway: I’d always go with an Apache server.  There should be a build of Apache that will work on WinXP.

Thanks

Although I agree with Chris about Apache, IIS is in fact available on XP (Pro, not sure about Home).

IN Control Panels, double click Add/Remove Programs.
On the left side, click Add/Remove WIndows Components
Scroll until you see IIS, check the box, click OK