An Accounts manager at RM or any other company is just that.. nothing more and they obviously don't want to lose business. The man(or woman) is obviously telling lies and probably have no technical expertise. Had that been true what he says then the whole of Internet would collapse as you know Internet is full of different platform computers. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Turnbull [mailto:mhturnbull@ntlworld.com] Sent: 06 December 2003 11:35 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Research Machines Connect 3 I'm a new member to submitting to the list, but I've been reading the mail for some time. I now have a query which someone may be able to help me with. Our school runs a Research Machines Connect 3 network, using Windows XP on the desktop. As a dedicated Linux user I have, in my office, an old machine running Suse 8.1 (too lazy to upgrade!) which I can set up to access the network easily using Samba, and can access our broadband connection through the proxy server. What more would I want to do! Talking recently to our accounts manager with RM, he said that Connect 3 will only run with Windows machines and there is a danger in connecting either an Apple or a Linux machine to the network "because of the DNS server running under Windows". This seems total clap-trap to me, and a ploy to ensure no-one infects their network with some inappropriate, but superior, OS. Any comments? Am I being blind to some obvious problems I might have caused? Thanks Mike Turnbull St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com