The MSMQ connector server is not available with the Windows NT® 4.0 Option Pack.
The MSMQ connector server provides a mechanism for MSMQ applications to send and receive message from computers using other messaging systems. To do this, MSMQ connector servers use internal connector queues to receive the messages from MSMQ and a connector application to translate messages between MSMQ and the other message system.
By using an MSMQ connector server, MSMQ applications can perform the same operations on foreign queues that they would typically perform on the queues within their enterprise.
Note Foreign queues, foreign computers, and foreign Connected-Networks (CNs ) are all created and used the same way their MSMQ counterparts are. For information on creating foreign computers and CNs, see the MSMQ Administrator's Guide.
The MSMQ connector server uses a pair of internal connector queues for each foreign CN attached to the connector. One is used for transactional messages and the other for non-transactional messages. Connector queues are implicitly created by MSMQ. They are not registered in the MQIS and they are transparent to the MSMQ application sending messages to the foreign queue. For applications, sending a message to a foreign queue is identical to sending a message to an MSMQ queue.
The following illustration shows a single MSMQ server connected to two foreign CNs. In this case, there are two pairs of connector queues, one pair for each foreign CN.