[plug] windows - a rant

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Foster wrote:

>Active Directory and profiles are nowhere even close on Linux. Take a school
>environment...
>

I do on-site work for a school and they use a Linux server for their 
students currently and they are going to be replacing it with a new 
server that is also going to be running Linux.

The attitude they have in regards to it, is that they don't want 
anything overly complex, their setup is simple, but still completely 
effective for what they do.  Basically they don't want to be touching 
the server for anything more than adding/removing users and password 
changes.  I don't have an overly complex setup on my work's Samba file 
server machine either, I hardly touch anything on that machine and it 
hums along nicely and does everything I need it to.  It currently has an 
uptime of 240+ days.

Personally I'm of the KISS way of thinking, I don't see a reason to make 
things more complex just because you can.


/ Ben