RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6

>...free unix box...

It's only free if you don't value your time, and you don't want "real"
support.


>...master to as many DNS zones as you like...

Multi-master actually allows multiple machines to act as the primary DNS for
the same zone. As you mention, there's never been a DNS server that couldn't
act as the master to several zones.

>I can install ANYTHING from a remote location.

You can? How do you install Windows 2000 SP3 on 1000 workstations from a
remote location via telnet? I thought we were referring to replacing our
servers with SAMBA/Linux, not the workstations. RIS allows me to setup a GPO
that says "When this guy logs in, push SP3. -- Oh, but if it's a slow dialup
connection, don't bother"

>...If you're talking about policies ... Unix...has better and more robust
ways of doing security.

GPOs are _like_ the old policy (.POL) files, only 1000 times better and more
robust. They allow you to control all sorts of stuff on the client like the
ability to do a 'Start|Run' or audit logs, or the right to create printers,
the location of "My Documents" etc. All pushed from the server to the client
and these options can change based on your Group membership and even
location in the network (LA vs. NY vs. South Africa etc)

If you are going to move all your desktops away from Windows then, yes there
are Unix-based solutions to most of these problems (after all MS doesn't
invent anything <G>) but I don't think the world is ready for that yet.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 00:58
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6



A free unix box can do Samba, OpenLDAP (for directories), RSync to
synchronize files across a network.  You can act as master to as many DNS
zones as you like (has there ever been a DNS server that couldn't?) Most of
the DNS hosted on the Internet is Unix... you just don't use Windows for
something that important.

Remote installation....  I upgrade FreeBSD to new versions all the time
from remote locations.   I can upgrade my machines at work from home,
which is really useful on the weekends when the machines are not being
used, but I don't feel like going in to work.   And as for installing
software... I can install ANYTHING from a remote location.  Like the
iSeries, I can telnet in and have full access to everything on the system. I
just tell it what software I want, it finds it on the internet, downloads
it, compiles if (if I ask it to build from source) and installs
it.   If the software requires any other software as a dependency, it will
also download and install that.

I'm not really sure what "Group Policy Objects" are.  If you're talking
about policies, like those edited with Windows policy editor, then you'll
find that any version of Unix (or pretty much every other operating system
besides windows) has better and more robust ways of doing security.  Only on
a Windows system would group security profiles be a "feature".

Support...  there are many companies that support Linux (including IBM, if
I'm not mistaken) and there are several that also support FreeBSD. Certainly
commercial Unixes like AIX and Solaris are supported by IBM and Sun
respectively...



On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>
> >How about avoiding that by going to Samba on some version, Intel or
> >not, of Samba?
>
> And Active Directory? File Replication? Remote Installation?
> Multi-master DNS? Group Policy Objects? And most importantly, support.
>

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