Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Is there some reason you omitted SFU from this list? Wasn't thinking. I was focused on "migration" or "segmentation" (ADS-NsDS) instead of ADS ownership. I should have included both Samba ADS-DC membership as well as SFU, if your network is to be 0w3n3d by ADS. > Recently you said it would work in a similar situation > to act as an NIS server with the Linux boxes as NIS > clients. Yes, it is yet one of the many options. > And by the way, does anyone know if there are any client > license fees for the things provided by SFU? Nope, not on the NIS end AFAIK. That was one really nice thing about Microsoft licensing Integraph AccessNFS (fka Sun PC-NFS) for SFU. No more client access licenses (CALs) -- other than the normal number of CALs you need for X users, when you access via NFS. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)