I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.

B.V.Dean B.V.Dean at ukc.ac.uk
Wed Jan 10 10:14:56 GMT 2001


In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101091424020.22091-100000 at amboise.dolphin>, Francois
 Gouget writes:
>
>   This has been there since at least NT 3.51. I've never been able to
>connect to a server with two different ids.
>
>   Also, despite what they say, I suspect it's not for security reasons
>but truely because of _bad_ design. Or at least it must be simpler for
>them to handle it that way.

	I miss this. When we used to have Windows 3.1 and PC-NFS I used to 
connect over a dozen drive letters to different servers using upto 3 or 4 IDs, 
it made management much easier!

	But then we must not forget, Windows is easier to manage now :-)



Barry Dean
Senior Computing Officer






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