From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:48 PM
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:40:50 PST, Roeland Meyer said:
Okay, how do you do security, in Win2K, without a domain controller? How do you do a Win2K domain without active directory?
Contrary to what many puntits would have you believe, you don't need to be in a domain and be running AD just to serve up static HTML. Beware such pundits - they are probably trying to sell you either a software or hardware upgrade. ;)
You don't even need to be running Win2K. I hear even NT 4.0 does a passable job once you install all the IIS patches. ;)
Actually, Linux does it better w/ Apache. But, IIS is a better RAD environment. But, that isn't the issue. The track started about DNS at MSFT. Windows networks have Win domain controllers ...
From: Eric Germann [mailto:ekgermann@cctec.com]
Uhh, I highly doubt they have a requirement to run DDNS on the front ends. If all you're doing is serving up html pages without user authentication, Win2K is perfectly happy with its own internal account database. DDNS is a pre-req for AD,
As Eric said.... you don't need bells and whistles. And if you're building a machine that *has* to work, you probably want to avoid bellls and whistles, as broken bell and whistle parts get jammed in the gears and cause failures....
MSFT is not running static anything.