[PLUG] this doesn't look good

[Chris Constantine]

James C. Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Christopher N. Deckard wrote:
> 
>> While looking around for other student lugs at Universities, I came
>> across this one at Texas A&M at Galveston.  NOT GOOD AT ALL!!!
> 
> I kind of chuckled when it says "install it as a Workstation."  As if
> there is truely a difference between a workstation and a server.  Are you
> a workstation until you run Apache? Because once you are running apache
> you are suddenly a server now?

How about X?  I understand that it is possible to firewall X so that 
port 6000 can't leave your box, it is still a server :)

> So if I installed Windows 98 and that Personal Web server (or whatever it
> is) ran by default, does my Windows workstation become a windows server?

Also keep in mind that windows file and print sharing (aka SMB) is 
server/client based.

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