Search Again: Re: Moving to windows From: Michael Wise Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Time: 8:41:01 am At 09:05 -0400 8/18/04, Jim Cobb wrote: >Management has decided that we are moving 100% to windows. Currently >we are 2/3rds Macs with windows machines under NT domains/WINS and >we are using using OS X dns servers with QuickDNS 4.5.1. My >questions are: > >-Should we use 2003 DNS or stick with Unix DNS? > >-If we user 2003 DNS what is it's relationship with QuickDNS/Bind version 8/9? > >-While there are some instructions in the manual for changing Bind >to dynamic DNS (which we may have to do for the transition), the >utilities mentioned in the docs either don't seem to work or don't >exist on the servers (we are using 10.2.8). > >-What are you guys using out there? My Microsoft people predict >total and abject failure unless we use the entire server2003 suite, >including DHCP etc. end to end unadulterated by Unix or "foreign >programs" (which I interpret as non-microsoft). > >Thanks for any help with this- Irrespective of the questionable technical merits or lack thereof for what "management" is mandating...I thought non-profits were supposed to be fiscally prudent? --Mike P.S. Your CGP directory is wide open, so you may want to close that as all 51 of your accounts are easily visible.

Messages In This Thread: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 6:08:29 am Re: Moving to windows by Michael Wise on Aug 18, 2004 at 8:41:01 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:02:04 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:10:05 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:42:21 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:51:34 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 10:02:37 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 11:02:46 am Re: Moving to windows by mattb on Aug 18, 2004 at 12:06:10 pm Re: Moving to windows by Sigfus Magnusson on Aug 18, 2004 at 1:48:53 pm Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 2:28:10 pm Re: Moving to windows by Men & Mice Support on Aug 18, 2004 at 2:58:12 pm Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 3:18:41 pm