Part of my "paring" down process with NT4, is to go into Services and
configure the StartUp option to "Disable" for all but the following:
EventLog
Plug and Play
and the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service
Best Regards, Donald Kelloway
http://www.commodon.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Wiltshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:56 PM
Subject: RE: Why not NT?
>This is not true. You can stop and uninstall all the services you don't
>need on NT. Exactly which bit of functionality were you having trouble
>removing?
>
>Realistically, the argument between NT and Unix should end up with "install
>the people who will be maintaining the box understand the best".
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, 4 June 1999 6:39 am
>> To: Rouland, Chris (ISSAtlanta)
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
>> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Bergman, Bret; Maines, Gigi; Mascis,
>> Christopher; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Subject: Re: Why not NT?
>>
>>
>> As someone mentioned earlier, you can't pare down NT. With
>> Solaris and
>> other Unix or Unix-like OSes, you can pare stuff down to just the core
>> of what you need. With NT, you get a lot of stuff. And new
>> issues are
>> discovered all the time. So Microsoft might be fixing the issues
>> quickly, but if a hacker discovers an exploit before they do, well,
>> you're SOL.
>>
>> With a pared down OS, you may also have issues, but there's a lot less
>> code to worry about.
>>
>> Jen
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