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

Well, you would have a support contract with IBM or Redhat in that
situation, also (or whoever your vendor is).  Just as if you bought a 12 way
windows server from HP, you would have a service contract with HP, most
likely, not microsft basic support.  Support for Linux is "technically"
free, immediate resolution typically isn't.  That is what vendors are for.
Of course, when you are also getting into the realm of 12 way processign
hardware, you aren't lookign to shave costs on service or licensing.
Typically you go with "what works best".

As for the DNS issue, I still don't see why you use "standard" DNS usage.
Have Master DNS server and do zone updates to your secondaries.  It is
another issue of Microsoft expanding a technology beyond its standards and
"breaking" things.  It is also another case of people using Microsoft
technology and wondering why no one else does it their way.  Because
everyone else TRIES to remain compatable with everyone, whereas MS likes to
"embrace and extend" and force everyone to play nice with them.  As someone
else also mentioned, all the root servers run unix-bind for DNS.  None use
Windows.  And we are talking millions of queries a second.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:02 PM
Subject: 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