Re: [IMail Forum] DataBase

[Ricardo Freire]

As far as the user limitation of NT, why, if I have 20000 students, should I have to place them in more than a single domain? Domain structure should reflect organization structure and resource allocation, not arbitrary or performance limitations. NDS has been shown to scale to over a billion objects (users, servers, printers, etc), and NT has lots of catching up to do.   The point is that NT domain system was designed to network access - and administration. I'm not sure it's a good thing to manage 20000 students' network access as ONE organizational structure. Simply put, a domain should cover a LAN, and several domains should take care of a WAN.   Looking from another standpoint: as an ISP, you have tens of thousands email accounts. But not *all* those people should logon to the LOCAL network where the mail server is located (I know it's not really the case, because IMail uses local NT SAM, but the limitations of this approach appear here too, because you're putting too much people into the server's security context).   I'm not saying NT domain is good or bad. I just don't think it was designed for this purpose. OTOH, Win2k Active Directory claims to do it all...  :-)   Cheers,   Ricardo Freire, MCP