From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 27 22:26: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020B737B42C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8S5QAV08256; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:26:10 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id WAA17447; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:26:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Darren Pilgrim To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix 2000... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My other > thing is.... Windows 2k is NOT easy to setup if you do all the profiles > and security that Microsoft wants you to use.. Plus, it seems like > quite a few tools have migrated BACK to the command prompt... The more I > get into it, the more like a new "graphical" Unix clone it feels > like... granted it's a Unix clone with a Microsoft outlook on things. Nearly all of the setup you have to do can be scripted or automated in some way, including user profiles. Registry files and batch user profile creation are your friends. Of course Microsoft doesn't tell anyone you can merge a handful of registry files and do 98% of the configuration instantaneously, nor do they distribute the tools or docs for doing so. They'd rather sell you a five-figure MSCE course to teach you how to smash your head against Configuration Wizards properly. But I agree, 2k is a pain to setup manually. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message