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    Posted: 31 January 2004 at 11:55pm

Hi, I'm totally new to forum making...no...make that an idiot...but the interface of this boards intrigues me. I was wondering if its possible to host a forum board from my home pc on a WinXP Pro platform. What are the stuffs I need and how to I get it going...is there any books that I can buy to get help on this forum software? or any startup guide for learner...sorry if I sound really silly.

I'm using Access as the database. Tried running it but got error as follows:

Error Type:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an updateable query.
/common.asp, line 542

Explicit explanation will be good....Help me please

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Did you try the instructions at this link?

http://www.webwiz.net/asp/tutorials/installing_iis_win XP_pro.asp
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Exposing IIS on your home PC is very dangerous unless you have a throurough understanding of how to lock it down, firewalls, port blocking, etc.

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The error means that you don't have the correct permissions to write to the database, see the common errors documentration that comes with the forum.

XP is a bad OS for hosting your own site, it only allows 10 coonnections to the server, this means that only 2 or 3 people can view your site at a time.

To host your own site you need to use a full blown server OS's like Windows 2000 server or Windows server 2003
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