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,
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
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:44, ICT Support Officer wrote:
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.
The only exception would be if they had deliberately built something
into Connect 3 to prevent other machines safely connecting to the
network. If there was no good reason for this I should think it would be
illegal under the 1998 competition act and similar legislation in the
EU.
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ian
It would be useful to find that out actually. I am sure though that the ignorant accounts manager was just trying to discourage the use of other OSS. Regards M Gural -----Original Message----- From: ian [mailto:ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com] Sent: 06 December 2003 10:58 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Research Machines Connect 3 On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:44, ICT Support Officer wrote:
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.
The only exception would be if they had deliberately built something
into Connect 3 to prevent other machines safely connecting to the
network. If there was no good reason for this I should think it would be
illegal under the 1998 competition act and similar legislation in the
EU.
--
ian
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:34:38AM +0000, Michael Turnbull wrote:
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
This is true, but irrelevent, Connect 3 is mostly client side software.
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.
Yes it is "clap-trap", most "infection" issues are down to Windows anyway. It isn't "their" network anyway, it's more likely to be *your* network. What he *might* mean is that it is possible for a samba server to cause an NT server to sulk. But the same thing can happen if you start adding NT servers to a network willy-nilly anyway. N.B. this has nothing to do with DNS. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
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