Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:49:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com> To: lkcl@switchboard.net Subject: Re: Management of Samba
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
>
> suggested means:
>
> 1) CORBA
> 2) DCE/RPC
> 3) proprietary.
>
> comments and such-like, anyone?
Don't forget
4). ONC/RPC (aka SunRPC - the basis for nfs etc.)
Advantages - built into all UNIXes.
Ported to Win32 (and even Win31).
Free source code (BSD license) - unlike DCE/RPC.
Defined method of using secure rpc.
and my favourite reason :-).
I know it backwards (having used
it at Vantive & ported it to every
known UNIX, ported it to run over
SPX, added compression & encryption
etc, etc... :-).
Jeremy.
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