From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 10 7: 4:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF9037B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA24524; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:02:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAL6a4YV; Tue Apr 10 07:02:34 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA05136; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:04:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200104101404.HAA05136@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:04:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), dchulhan@uwi.tt (Dale Chulhan - Home), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG), TheTechies@onelist.com (My List), mbug@listbot.com (The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010410005926.00d937b0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 10, 2001 01:03:29 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Because they don't document how they use the field internally, > >it's also not possible to participate as a doamin controller > >in a Windows 2000 domain, unless you are a Windows box. > > I'm sure that this will be reverse-engineered. Only if the entire ActiveDirectory architecture is reverse engineered. The cookie is an OID identifier (opaque, of course). > Of course, participating in Windows 2000 domains is a bad > idea to begin with, because of security problems. > > I counsel my clients to avoid file sharing in general > and Windows file sharing in particular. It's hard to find a shop that doesn't have at least some Windows servers. Because of certain tools requirements, even Whistle had NT servers around (ask Julian about it some time when you have a beer in front of you already). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message