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