I'd say that was because a lot of folks were running Groupwise on Windows to interface with their Netware server, and Microsoft was wanting to have the whole pie to themselves.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:19:56 -0600 (CST), Brad Bendily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to preface this relpy with: > I've never really done much filesystem admining in Linux or Windows. > I've tooled around enough to understand the concepts and that > if I had to do something more serious I could. > > I'll say this though. File system administration in NetWare beats > these two OSs hands down. It's granular when you want it to be > but still easy to understand. The concept of ACLs is there, but > it's not near as difficult. NetWare has been doing file systems > for 15 years. A quote in this thread says "in XP now there is an > "effective permissions" dialog". NetWare had that in version 4.11 > which I starting using in 1997. I'm pretty sure it was there in > earlier version, but I can't say 100% for sure. I'm not saying > this for flame wars, but just trying to give another perspective > to this discussion. It can be granular, it can be easy. It can > also be tied to specific users. I know every one can't copy > Novell's infrastructure, but they could learn. Actually > MS has been learning and a lot of AD is taken/copied from > eDirectory. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
