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Used to have alot of lockups and crashes, but the sys admin reboots the servers every two weeks, so that has gone away.

You might what to have someone audit your network, I run a network of 15 win2k servers and 3 linux servers for 200 users and everything works great. So well in fact, I haven't rebooted any of our servers for at least six months, and then it was only because I upgraded the hardware on one of the boxes. As for a good use for NIS, we use MS's Services For Unix to export our AD usernames to our linux servers running samba. As for Steve's question about what it is like on the other side of the fence, I don't feel he is really missing anything other then pretty screens and a fancy mail server (Exchange). Samba running on our linux servers is just as fast (if not faster) then the MS file servers. MySQL now has support for stored procedures and with their GUI Control Center, it is almost as easy to setup as MS SQL. I have to admit that I still love Exchange, but I am constantly looking for a open source replacement. One other thing that I haven't found on the linux front is any type of systems management (i.e MS Systems Management Server). We use it to keep track of everything from what programs users are running to making sure that the virus dats are updated on a regular basis. If anyone knows of something compairable, I would love to hear from them as MS SMS doesn't play well with non MS machines (go figure). :-) Ken