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

>From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
>The only drawback is that you have to pay them for support.

That's the support I was referring to by "real." If my production 840-12 way
running Linux is down I'm not going to send a message to a Linux mailing
list saying "Um, ah, does someone have time to help me debug this?" I'm
going to call someone to get the darn thing fixed. I'm not saying that other
platforms are free, they aren't, just that Linux isn't free either.

>It allows for conflicting DNS zones...

Not really. That's the whole point behind Active Directory Replication. I
can make my changes anywhere and they'll be replicated to the other DNS
servers through ADR. To the outside world there is only 1 Primary (that's
the nature of DNS) but I can make updates to the zone from anywhere.
Especially important with dynamic DNS, I don't want my poor client in San
Fran having to wait for a slow link to NY to add himself to DNS when he
boots.

>To do that, you'd need to use VNC ...to log on to each workstation,
individually...

1) VNC is awesome! I've been using it for several years and I can't imaging
administering a network w/o it.
2) Not logging into each workstation is the whole point behind RIS and AD
push deployment.

>Are you sure that Samba doesn't support acting as a server for group
policies?

No, I'm not. But GPOs are rather integrated into AD, and I don't believe
Samba emulates AD yet. GPOs are much more complicated then the simple .POL
files that Win9x had.

-Walden

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