Yes I am smoking crack, branded by MS. I would never recoment any windows box as a public server. Keep the beast behind the firewall (it's easier to hide it from your friends that way.) There are some tasks that Windows 2000 will do better than Linux. Controling and Securing a NT Domain for example. Right now, the only way to deal with windows client auth is Windows 2000. (Yes, samba can do it to a point...) If I could change the database over to UNIX I would, but as it is the NT4+MSSQL7.0 is the platform supported by the software needed by the database applications. Something of a necissary evil I suppose... As those database applications are based around databases and (shudder) filesharing, we have the Citrix server to throw the application over our WAN link to our out of state facilities. (If the damn applications didn't need the filesharing component we could run this without the Citrix part...) Overall I've had better experiences with Windows 2000 than Windows NT. I don't reboot them all the time either, I use an at job to reboot them automatically every night. (Kinda sad isn't it?) For the vendor support issue, the only way to run our databases under UNIX would be Oracle, and while it's supported, there are still a few technical issues in the way. So we're stuck with MSSQL (for now.) But fear not, not all the boxen are Windows. Firewall, proxy, file + print, web, e-mail are all done on Linux. By far these servers have performed much better than the NT servers. Get over the NT vs. UNIX thing. For now, they both have their place, both have strengths and weaknesses. I didn't say Windows 2000 was right for all situations, and for many it's just plain wrong. I think I should stop now before this becomes an all out flame war... (too late?) -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010125/de34bf4d/andyzb.vcf