SNA XP compatability

Fernando

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Aug 3, 2004, 8:28:10 PM8/3/04

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Im in the process of upgrading one of our apps to Win XP and I am
concerned about compatibility issues. If I am running SNA Server 4.0
SP4 and my new client is Win XP can I install the 4.0 Client for WinNT
under XP? Will the install work but be unsupported or will the
install fail? Also, can I use the HIS client to communicate with SNA
server 4.0 on the backend or must both the client and server be
upgraded at the same time? Esentially I am trying to upgrade the
client without touching the back end 4.0 Server. Any ideas???

regards,

Fernando

Jeremy Remlinger [MSFT]

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Aug 4, 2004, 11:47:03 AM8/4/04

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Fernando,

You will be able to install the SNA 4.0 Client onto your Windows XP
machine. However, in order for this to be supported you will also need to
install SNA SP4 on top of this install. You will get an error message that
this is not a supported OS when you are running the install, however this
is because the SNA 4.0 Client was written prior to Windows XP being
released.

You should have not problems communicating to your existing SNA 4.0 Server.

However, please take note that SNA 4.0 is no longer eligible for any fixes
unless you have an 'Extended Support' contract, as it is past it's
supportability lifecycle. I would strongly recommend upgrading to the
current version of Host Integration Server 2000, or the soon to be released
Host Integration Server 2000 as soon as possible.

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Neil Pike

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Aug 4, 2004, 3:58:42 PM8/4/04

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Fernando,

The only supported option is HIS 2000 SP1 (or HIS 2004) client. These work
just dandy against SNA 4.0 as well, so no reason not to do that.

Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd
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Jeremy Remlinger [MSFT]

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Aug 4, 2004, 6:10:11 PM8/4/04

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Fernando,

I retract my previous statement. SNA 4.0 is *NOT* supported when running
on Windows XP. I had Windows 2000 and Windows XP confused in my head.

This is documented in the following KB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327491

I apologize for any inconveninece this misinformation may have casued.

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