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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@portsoft.com Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 17 Apr 1997 06:04:00 GMT Organization: Easystreet Online Services Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5j4egh$sjc$7@easystreet03> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <861122579.951304@aldan> Reply-To: tedm@portsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20236 comp.os.linux.misc:170313 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39220 In <861122579.951304@aldan>, mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) writes: >Honorable Tim Smith > wrote on 13 Apr (in article <5ipu6g$igq$1@halcyon.com>): > >>>One item I'm surprised nobody mentioned--more than one person >>>cannot log into and use an NT machine at the same time. > >=No one mentioned that because it's wrong. Just start the telnet >=daemon from the resource kit. > >And how is the security addressed then? Can I, being logged in >remotely, see the network shares mounted by someone else? > No. >Also, with (almost) none of command line administration utilities, >what's the point of logging in remotely? What can I do with the >dos command line? > Lots. First in mind you can do a "net use" and it's family of friends to get access to other shares. FTP is also command line. There are a number of others as well, many networking commands. Many NT administrative commands have command line counterparts, I know a lot of stupid NT admins that ran out and bought the NT resource kit just to get a graphical interface to the system scheduler, not even knowing that the "at" command existed, for example. NT also runs OS/2 character-mode programs. (bet you didn't know that either) There is also a lot of Unix character-mode stuff ported to NT. >Arbitrary NT application can not display on the remote screens. >Every NT program has to reinvent the client-server scheme over >again to give the user such a possibility. Most people that remotely admin NT servers use PCAnywhere, or some such it is true. However, the character-mode commands are there, you just need to look a little harder for them. Of course, most people that buy NT do so because they are inherently lazy and want to avoid any additional work so you won't see most of them looking for the additional commands. If you want to trash NT, I'd suggest starting with it's elephantine resource requirements first. There's plenty of rich material there to keep you occupied for a long time. Ted