Yet another oddity

Elrond elrond at samba.org
Fri Jul 7 17:45:42 GMT 2000


On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:19:19AM +1000, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Nope, often not.  Win98 is NOT a network operating system, it doesn't even
> > participate well on a network.  DHCP doesnt' work well, DNS doesn't work
> > well from DHCP, WINS doesn't work properly at all...

Uff... I didn't know, it was that bad...

(I have only to do with nt, and everytime, when someone
asks about 9x, I more or less run away. ;-))

> > Leave Win98 for home
> > users when at all possible.
> >         Grego
> 
> According to my housemate, it's not even good there. ;-).

I thought, it was good for all those "cool" games? nt
doesn't like a bunch of them, as I understand it.


    Elrond


> I realised that it wasn't a proper NOS, but I figured that it'd be
> reasonably easy to follow standards (hmmm very naive). ;-).
> 
> Thanks, I'll let it rest now that it's completely OT.
> 
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> 
> Matthew Geddes
> Network Manager
> Xavier College
> Gawler, SA


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