> At a place I worked at several years ago we switched > from Win2K to Linux because Linux was a lot easier to > administer remotely. All the production servers were > in a rack about 30 miles away and it was too much of > a pain for the admins to drive up there when the > servers would get wedged. (On Linux (and Unix in general) > you can easily administer a box over a telnet session. > Good luck doing that w/Windows...)
I'll grant that it's easier to remotely manage Unices using telnet or ssh, but you can actually get where you want to go with Windows - it's easier/cheaper/quicker to set up remote administration on Windows than it is to switch OSs, I'd guess. There are graphical management tools, like Terminal Server; there are also command-line tools to perform nearly every administrative task, and you can use those with the built-in Win2K telnet server or with a third-party ssh server. I've been satisfied with VShell, from Van Dyke Software (http://www.vandyke.com/). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
