Question for David Wang!

Hi, David!

While searching on Yahoo I was served up a link to your blog and I was
thrown right into the conversation we had over in the neigbouring 64bit
group, a while ago (well, 6 months now!).

To update: time and other responsibilities made me give up the Virtual
Server project as it was mostly an effort to overcome compatibility issues
that were thinning anyway, and I ended up hauling an old machine out of the
dust and giving it a new board and memory and HD and it was doing very well
indeed.

So, naturally I bought a router in order to connect the two, and that went
allright (Winx64 & Win2K). When configuring the router (OvisLink) I jumped
at a reference to 'Virtual Server', a spot where you could set up global and
local IP adresses and have outside access to your web, apparently. Nothing
much else is said about that.

Then, as I am still working on my Home Page, and I have two machines and I
noticed how it created havoc if you had different DPI settings on the two,
( I had taken care to accomodate for people's varying tastes for text size,
but not DPI) that it would be smart to access the Home Page on both machines
in order to see the effects of my editing the way it would look to the
outside world.

Trying that, the Win2K machine complained not having IIS installed - so I
installed there as well, but then I am met with a 404. And that is why I was
searching and many times I am confronting the concept of IIS and Virtual
Server in a web context, that I never expected, I thought VS was exlusively
for installing Virtual Machines.

So, the question is:

When OvisLink mentions VS, is it the same VS I am thinking about, and if
I want to display my own Home Page on both machines here at home, will that
require that I install VS after all?


Regards.

Tony. . .