I would really recommend win 2k IIS5 for web servies if you are Windows based. Especially for production servers. Win 9x/ME are really nothing more /home/ operating systems.

The other benefit of the NT kernel (which 2k uses - it's really NT5), other that /far/ greater stability, is that you can assign proper permissions because of the NTFS filing system. This gives you a lot more control over what you can allow uses do and not do.

That said, if you are running a web server on ME the chances are that it isn't a production server. So in your web server admin software (I've never heard of sambar - sorry) you should have a restricted IP list. Set this so that only 127.0.0.1 has access to you web server.

127.0.0.1 is the built in loopback address for all network interface cards. This will stop anyone from using your webserver other that from the local machine. Now you can test all you want without any security concerns.

Never give the Inetuser account write and execute permissions on the same directory.

Hoped that helped a bit