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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.113.159.49!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news7.crl.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:06:35 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3349A82B.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <859659793-6-9882@manatee.envirolink.org> <33455DE7.72D5@multics-a.pms.ford.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970405001440.6436B-100000@dolphin.inna.net> <334665fc.659312482@news.diac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19966 comp.os.linux.misc:168678 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38722 Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > And if you ask a Redmond-head, you'll be told that you can use all the > services a particular NT machine offers by resource sharing (files, > printers, whatever), from your client (which of course is either Win95 > or NT - so MS sells more junk!) so why do you need telnet or something > like that? Nothing will ever convince them otherwise. Which totally sucks because any system admin who's been paged at 4am will tell you in great and verbose detail just How Wonderful it is to be able to log into a UNIX machine remotely (assuming it's not a complete pile of ash) and control all the services which run on it from something as simple as a VT100 terminal with a modem. Not that many of us still use VT100s, but the minimal-infrastructure-required approach is definitely the way to go when it comes to disaster recovery. I can do it from my hotel room, where I may only have a palmtop running DOS and a modem, or my more fully-appointed setup at home. All I need is a dial-in connection and some comms software. There are other considerations as well, such as the fact that I will NOT log into a machine over the Internet these days without using ssh. I don't even run telnetd or rlogind on machines which are important to me, only sshd. How do I get a secure shell connection into my NT box, eh? :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.