Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 20:18:21 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory Message-ID: <150850000.1002413900@vpn35.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <15295.39872.257133.588481@csa.bu.edu> References: <15295.34963.480878.91865@csa.bu.edu> <200110062149.f96LnFj26783@csa.bu.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110071131220.9190-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <200110062358.f96Nw6749207@harmony.village.org> <143340000.1002412899@vpn35.ece.cmu.edu> <15295.39872.257133.588481@csa.bu.edu>
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On Saturday, October 06, 2001 20:03:12 -0400, Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu> wrote: +----- | Could you give me the URL to that? I'm trying to write a proposal, | and it would be useful if I could use that evidence. My school +--->8 I'll have to look for it; it's in a number of their whitepapers and planning guides for business/corporate networks. Part of the reason is to try to get them to pay more for WinNT/2k/XP-Pro, but another large part is that 95/98/ME are designed for home use and don't behave nicely on business networks: no user-level security in the OS, will happily make a wormhole past a firewall if someone on the network decides to dial out and for some reason turned routing on, etc. In general, while you *can* connect them, Microsoft will disavow much of what they claim for Win2k-based networks if you use the home versions of Windows as clients. (This isn't a reason to bash Microsoft, BTW; it makes a lot of sense, actually. Home users don't generally want to care about things like user-level security, so it makes sense for Windows versions targeting them to not support (and not have the overhead of) those features and equal sense for the home-targeting versions to be deprecated in a corporate environment where those features are important.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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