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Network reconfig, day one
I'm starting to really, really hate Microsoft. I mean, I didn't use to, because I'm one of those who have to live in an MS environment. But now that we're starting to have problems using Active Directory service and Windows networking, I'm getting this itchy feeling to bash Gates.
We're currently on an W2K3 AD environment. Joining WXP is a breeze; it was just a matter of changing a few parameters in the hosts. W98 is another matter. We've been experiencing inconsistent success and failure joining W98 hosts to the AD domain. One moment, the user can authenticate, he/she'd be blocked the next.
I'm beginning to suspect that this is a feature, not a bug, in W2K3, since W98 is not really meant for networking, after all.
Oh, well. These are just some of the things one has to contend with when one uses -- or is it the other way around: one is being used by -- Windows.
No, this isn't MS-bashing time, just the plain truth about how difficult it is to live in an MS-dominated world.
Well, there's always GNU/Linux and OSS...
I'm starting to really, really hate Microsoft. I mean, I didn't use to, because I'm one of those who have to live in an MS environment. But now that we're starting to have problems using Active Directory service and Windows networking, I'm getting this itchy feeling to bash Gates.
We're currently on an W2K3 AD environment. Joining WXP is a breeze; it was just a matter of changing a few parameters in the hosts. W98 is another matter. We've been experiencing inconsistent success and failure joining W98 hosts to the AD domain. One moment, the user can authenticate, he/she'd be blocked the next.
I'm beginning to suspect that this is a feature, not a bug, in W2K3, since W98 is not really meant for networking, after all.
Oh, well. These are just some of the things one has to contend with when one uses -- or is it the other way around: one is being used by -- Windows.
No, this isn't MS-bashing time, just the plain truth about how difficult it is to live in an MS-dominated world.
Well, there's always GNU/Linux and OSS...
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