2. Introduction to InetPowerServer

InetPowerServer (IPS) is a powerful server for standard Internet services like file transfers and e-mail for OS/2 or Windows NT operating systems. The OS/2 version are called InetPowerServer/2 (IPS/2) and the Windows NT version are called InetPowerServer/32 (IPS/32). Both versions utilize full multithreading and will run well on SMP systems as well as single CPU machines.

IPS is written by Terje Flaarønning using Virtual Pascal v1.10 by fPrint. This .HTML based documentation are written using StarOffice 4.0 for OS/2 (International Beta II).

IPS follows all Internet standards, and present it to the client applications just a the same services on a UNIX server would do. To see what service protocols are supported and at what level, please read the history file.

IPS include a full blown UNIX security system with owner, group and other rights down to a per file level of accuracy, this is made possible using OS/2's Extended Attribute system. Chown, chgrp, chmod and ls UNIX-style utilities are included. Some UNIX knowledge will be useful when using all the advanced security features.

IPS configuration and user setup files are all AscII and can therefore be easily edited with any text editor or script files.

IPS implements a powerful RexxHook system which make it possible to expand the IPS feature-set by writing Rexx scripts.

Special greetings go to Tom Wheeler for modifing the UNIX GNU utils to work with IPS and Mario Gaucher for a lot of testing time and great scripts.