> > 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.

Then don't use it. :)

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

That's a short-sighted reason. Chances are they are doing this to make
Windows a more viable solution in existing UNIX networks. As Linux people we
should view this as the opposite: an opportunity to introduce UNIX and Linux
into Windows networks.

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Dustin Puryear
Puryear Information Technology, LLC
Baton Rouge, LA
http://www.puryear-it.com


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