On Jan 21, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> They are now giving away Windows Services for UNIX. It used to work 
> like the
> RK I think. You pay around $100 and you essentially get a site 
> license. Now
> it's free. Should be interesting.
>
> http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/41498/Windows_41498.html
>
> If you have never looked at this before, it allows a Windows server to 
> do
> everything from serve as an NIS master server to offering out network 
> shares
> using NFS.

One problem.... I don't want my windows machines offering services to 
my UNIX machines.  I want it the other way around!  I want my windows 
machines to authenticate against NIS, LDAP, etc. etc.

I think it is strange that M$ is giving something away.... Perhaps no 
one was buying it because of reasons like the one above?

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