[Setup] NT 4.0 - Service Support
Philip Kilner
phil at xfr.co.uk
Tue Nov 8 17:56:03 UTC 2005
Hi Alan,
alan runyan wrote:
> I just don't see WinNT 4.0 being supported by community or enfold systems at
> this time.
I do understand the commercial realities, but I was under the impression
that the Windows installer used the service functionality in the Win32
extensions, and that that was common to the NT/2K/XP family of OSes - in
fact, I thought the lack of support was due to an oversight rather than
an actual problem...
> Your only choice(s):
>
> - Do it yourself
>
Easy to use a wrapper to fix this problem...
> - Hire someone to install it for you
>
...which I can do myself!
> - Convince Enfold Systems to support WinNT 4.0 (which will require $$$)
>
No $$$ (or £££ in my case) for this, as it would be better to upgrade
the server...
> - Convince Zope Corp to support WinNT 4.0 (which will require $$$)
>
...and all I'd like to know from the Zope guys is when/why/how they
/stopped/ supporting NT, 'cos it used to work fine and I did not notice
the version at which it broke.
> I'm sure its not what you wanted to hear. But the upside is, you have
> options.
>
Yup - to be honest, I'd like to resolve it purely because it's messy -
but it's also true that when I have whined about this before I've had
half a dozen emails from other people who have found my mails on the web
and have the same problem.
Wearing another hat, we've just bought the Enfold server BTW, so thanks
for that!
(FWIW, we bought a 2K3 server to run it on - it won't go anywhere near
an NT box!)
;-)
--
Regards,
PhilK
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