[50] in winnt
NT AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jehenrik@MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 11 13:13:09 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 97 13:13:03 EDT
From: jehenrik@MIT.EDU
To: winnt@MIT.EDU (The MIT WinNT support team)
Cc: jehenrik@MIT.EDU, winnt@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jehenrik@MIT.EDU, winnt@MIT.EDU
Errors-To: winnt@MIT.EDU
I realize that you have considered it, but I just thought
I'd put in my vote for getting a site licence for NT AFS.
I've wondered why we don't have it for a long time, but have
not known who to talk about it. I just ran across
web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt and I am sort of still wondering.
I don't see what is so experimental about it since people
(notably many) already run 95 and NT. (Is Transarc AFS
offered on NT and _not_ on 95? It would keep oodles of
people from using unauthenticated FTP to transfer files to
and from their athena accounts. Granted, you can use
Zmodem through HostExplorer, but who even _knows_ about
that? I was recently shocked to realize how many people
don't even understand authenticated telnet. Noone I talked
to realized that FTP was also unauthenticated since
ftp.dialup gives the message "user foo logged in with
kerberos tickets."
Generally, I just don't understand why it hasn't been here
for a while. I would like to see the prices that justified
site licencing MacOS 8 before NT AFS. As far as I can see,
MacOS was a luxury. AFS is certanly a necessity.
Sincerely,
Jeff Henrikson '99
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