Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:10:11 -0700 (PDT) From: William Stuart <william@hae.com> To: Adrian Taylor <A.J.Taylor@soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: NT Services for UNIX In-Reply-To: <SIMEON.9805141054.E1953@thumper.sucs.soton.ac.uk>
I don't get the impression that it will cost money. They say it will be
integrated into NT5 so I this there is a good chance there giving this
away.
--- William Stuart (william@hae.com) "If Netscape is giving their software away, how do they make money?" "Volume."On Thu, 14 May 1998, Adrian Taylor wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:28:47 +1000 > From: Adrian Taylor <A.J.Taylor@soton.ac.uk> > To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au> > Subject: Re: NT Services for UNIX > > > Microsoft seem to have decided to reinvent the wheel. Do they > think that by calling what seems to be basically PC-NFS a > 'Microsoft friendly' name, that people will rush out and buy it?? > > Ok, so NFS is a 'nice', reasonably seamless way of exporting files. > > To my mind, it has one advantage over samba that will sell it to > the punters... > 1. It has the M$ badge - doesn't mean it's any good :-) > > The disadvantages : > 1. NFS is not 'native' to Windows > 2. Security. This isn't so much of a problem in smallish places, > but in our university environment, this can be quite troublesome.. > We would have to export our filestore to many thousands of > machines on / off campus, which would be totally out of our > control. One malicious user with a UNIX box (linux, whatever) and > the root password to their own UNIX box can basically do whatever > they like to anybody else's filestore. Not good.. > 3. It'll cost money :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Adrian Taylor E-mail: ajt@soton.ac.uk > UNIX Systems Support and Development Phone : +44 (0)1703 595546 > Southampton University Computing Services Mobile: +44 (0)411 522087 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >