[33991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network diversity Software diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jan 26 02:50:14 2001
Message-Id: <200101260747.f0Q7lWiI030390@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:40:50 PST."
<9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039B88@condor.mhsc.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:47:32 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:40:50 PST, Roeland Meyer said:
> Okay, how do you do security, in Win2K, without a domain controller?
> How do you do a Win2K domain without active directory?
Contrary to what many puntits would have you believe, you don't
need to be in a domain and be running AD just to serve up static HTML.
Beware such pundits - they are probably trying to sell you either a software
or hardware upgrade. ;)
You don't even need to be running Win2K. I hear even NT 4.0 does
a passable job once you install all the IIS patches. ;)
> > From: Eric Germann [mailto:ekgermann@cctec.com]
> >
> > Uhh, I highly doubt they have a requirement to run DDNS on
> > the front ends. If all you're doing is serving up html pages
> > without user authentication, Win2K is perfectly happy with
> > its own internal account database. DDNS is a pre-req for AD,
As Eric said.... you don't need bells and whistles. And if you're
building a machine that *has* to work, you probably want to avoid
bellls and whistles, as broken bell and whistle parts get jammed in
the gears and cause failures....
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
