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From: jvrobert@sedona.intel.com (Jason V. Robertson~)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 16 Apr 1997 17:08:44 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
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In article <861122579.951304@aldan>,
Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net..remove-after-`net'> wrote:
>
>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?
>
>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?
>
>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.

That's why Citrix already offers multiuser extensions to NT, and Microsoft
is planning on doing the same.
-- 
|Jason V. Robertson <jvrobert@sedona.intel.com> |
|Not speaking for Intel.                        |