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Surpride Settlement Splits Microsoft
dbl221:
Dam its like reading an industrial espionage novel...good work.
I think the reason the fucktards in management have that impression about $$ and MicroShit products is that...."you get what you pay for".
Or as I like to say "you pay for what you get"
:D
voidmain:
IanC, I have run Samba in place of NT servers for quite some time. In fact I have been doing contract work for a company and every time I go over there I install another Linux server for them and have replaced a few of their NT servers. None of them have been file and print servers mind you. Now tomorrow they want to set up Linux on a hefty server and eventually want to replace their main file servers. I told them I would be more than happy to help eradicate but there are several things they must consider. They are already familiar with the NT way of setting up shares and permissions etc. I have no problem personally editing the config file with "vi" for creating shares. My partners are less familiar with *NIX and can set up shares with "swat" and/or "webmin" with little trouble. I usually set up Samba as type "SERVER" and point to an NT domain controller so you can use NT domain users in the permissions. I was curious if you knew of other graphical tools that maybe an MCSE or lesser could be comfortable with?
Regarding your "uptime" on your NT server. You're uptime is only going to be as good as your last service pack. Damn it's nice to be able to upgrade without having to reboot. I have a few Linux machines with over a year of uptime!
iancom:
Other than the two you mentioned, I'm afraid I haven't tried any other graphical tools. I refuse to employ MCSE's so anyone here who has any responsibilty for creating / modifying shares etc has the necessary clue and sudo+webmin rights to do so.
It does get a little laborious maintaining a copy of your NT user list on the Samba server as well as the Domain, but the release notes for 2.2.3a assure us that will be sorted very soon... :)
Calum:
Imagine that! those poor misguided fools waste their precious time, and cough up their life savings into Bill Gates' chamber pot, just to get an MCSE, and then people like you make a point of refusing to employ them!
Well done!!!
iancom:
My CV includes the phrase:
"I am not Microsoft Certified and never intend to become so."
The pimps routinely try and edit it out when they send on my CV but I don't let them...
As far as I'm concerned any company that's looking for an MCSE just doesn't really know what they're looking for and I certainly don't want to work for them...
I've signed up for RHCE (exam only) in May... that really looks like a qualification that's worth something.
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