Yeah but, with Cygwin and Samba, I don't think you're actually using "synced" accounts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but sure you can terminal in and administer *nix servers, but if your windows account and unix accounts aren't synced in this setup.
Bacardi -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anthony Abby Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:39 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Services for Unix On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 00:40, Adam Smith wrote: > > Well I consider $100 expensive, considering you can get > > everything they > > give you, for free elsewhere. :) The Open source community has been > > pretty good to me.... > > I agree completely, but does Cygwin do everything SFU does? > Specifically, does Cygwin support password authentication from a Windows > 2000 domain to Unix? That is something we are looking at doing here. > Oh sure. There isn't anything you can't do with Cygwin/Samba. I know plenty of people who administer there Unix servers from a windows workstation via cygwin. I myself prefer to work in Unix/Linux though, so I use SSH/Samba to connect to Windows... well, what few Windows servers I have left anyway. ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
