Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:04:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), dchulhan@uwi.tt (Dale Chulhan - Home), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG), TheTechies@onelist.com (My List), mbug@listbot.com (The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group) Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) Message-ID: <200104101404.HAA05136@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010410005926.00d937b0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 10, 2001 01:03:29 AM
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> >Because they don't document how they use the field internally, > >it's also not possible to participate as a doamin controller > >in a Windows 2000 domain, unless you are a Windows box. > > I'm sure that this will be reverse-engineered. Only if the entire ActiveDirectory architecture is reverse engineered. The cookie is an OID identifier (opaque, of course). > Of course, participating in Windows 2000 domains is a bad > idea to begin with, because of security problems. > > I counsel my clients to avoid file sharing in general > and Windows file sharing in particular. It's hard to find a shop that doesn't have at least some Windows servers. Because of certain tools requirements, even Whistle had NT servers around (ask Julian about it some time when you have a beer in front of you already). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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