On Friday 30 January 2004 20:03, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I've never found time to focus on this topic, but I believe it is very important.
To us it's vital. We run 20 boxes nfs and nis with autofs. There are 160 user accounts. The SuSE software cost us Euros 60. The microsoft software would have been so way off budget to be unthinkable. We are a small school so security is not such a big issue. We have a firewall which stops the baddies from outside and file permissions seem to guard against the rest internally. I found the learning curve steep as I'm not trained in computers but within our budget there really is nothing to touch it. I often wonder what a NT or 2000 network feels like compared to a Linux one and how much more you really get by paying microsoft prices. It would be interesting to hear comments from someone who has used both. Thanks for the topic. Steve.