On Thursday 01 March 2007 19:13, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
I'm not sure about AD, no-AD? Do I need it?
I have never found a use for AD or even Windows Domain controllers. Certainly never for a network that small.
Even where they are claimed to be of use (really large installations where people want to log into their desktop from any workstation) they don't work well enough for anyone to actually DO that. So everyone graduates from the Microsoft course and runs out an defines Domain controllers and Active Directory, only to burry themselves in a maintenance nightmare that doesn't meet its very reason for being.
John really hasn't any idea of what he's talking about. It works very well for us. It sure beats running around our dozen or so computers (we're a small shop) applying security and getting them all different, installing software manually on each one, going to each one and going through Windows Update to get the results of the latest Patch Tuesday. But don't trust me either, do your own research and ask people who actually use it, not a bunch of Linux geeks. Of course you're not going to get good unbiased advice here~ -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org