samba vs. visionfs

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From: john@optifacts.com (John H)
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Subject: Re: Samba or VisionFS - which is best?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:17:57 -0500
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:43:45 -0500, the entity known as Jerad Stoops
<jms@sofnet.com> wrote:

>Michael Sweeden wrote:
>

>VisionFS -- Cons
>Mostly administered from the windows side, this
>can be a real pain in some cases.
>Still not as much control over user perms, shares,
>as I would like to see.
>

That's true, but ONLY if you don't know how to administer VisionFS from the
Unix side.  This part just isn't documented as well.  I administer all of
VisionFS from the unix end.  Some of it I had to learn by doing something in
the gui and then looking at the conf files on the unix end and seeing what
changed.  Hate the gui.

>
>SCO Advanced File and Print Server
>It basically makes the unix box appear as a
>windows nt domain controller, it can serve as
>the primary or secondary domain controller.
>This allows you to have much more control over
>your users and their permissions, also gives you
>the ability to have the user logon to the afps domain
>just like win nt. It does cost, but if you need more
>than what VisionFS can offer it may be what you
>want.

If I remember correct, AFPS _IS_ Windows NT 3.5x code, so not only does it
appear to be an NT server, it really is, along with all the capabilities.

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