cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (03/05/91)
The MS LAN Manager 2.0 code for the AT&T StarGROUP will be named 2.0, to keep in tune with the MS version levels. The new features will include a Single System Image, Primary and Backup Domain Name Controllers, database replication, and improved security. The security piece will include password ageing with min/max length/time, physical-workstation login validation, valid hours per I.D., etc. A better method of auditing resources will also be included. Personally, I can't wait for the Single-System Image as it will make the administrator's job easier and global communications possible. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
alexb@cfctech.cfc.com (Alex Beylin) (03/13/91)
In article <26803@netcom.COM> cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) writes: > > >The MS LAN Manager 2.0 code for the AT&T StarGROUP will be named 2.0, >to keep in tune with the MS version levels. > >The new features will include a Single System Image, Primary and Backup >Domain Name Controllers, database replication, and improved security. > What about peer services? (Direct communication between LM clients). Is that slated for 2.0 as well? On the same subject, have anybody implemented a LAN with both LM/X and OS/2 LM servers? Please share the experience. Alex Beylin, Systems Specialist | +1 313 759-7114 alexb@cfctech.cfc.com | Chrysler Corp. MIS sharkey!cfctech!alexb | Distributed Systems Group
cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (03/15/91)
In article <1991Mar12.171026.2424@cfctech.cfc.com> alexb@cfctech.cfc.com (Alex Beylin) writes: >In article <26803@netcom.COM> cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) writes: >> >> >>The MS LAN Manager 2.0 code for the AT&T StarGROUP will be named 2.0, >>to keep in tune with the MS version levels. >> >>The new features will include a Single System Image, Primary and Backup >>Domain Name Controllers, database replication, and improved security. >> > >What about peer services? (Direct communication between LM clients). >Is that slated for 2.0 as well? > I do not know if that feature will be implemented in this release, as it wasn't mentioned. >On the same subject, have anybody implemented a LAN with both LM/X >and OS/2 LM servers? Please share the experience. > I have not done any implementations of a mixed environment, but I did attend the Interop '89 show where the TOP/NetBIOS boot showed a CLNP/TP4 OSI network with LAN MAN API connectivity. This show had Ungermann-Bass, AT&T, 3COM, and RCE with their respective LM implementations, with complete connectivity at the client level to any vendors server. This was to show the open systems approach to OSI networking, but also highlighted the LanMan standard (IMO). AT&T was the only vendor who had LM/X, the others were OS/2. TP4 or OSI-based networking is quite prevalent in Europe, but it seems to be shunned in the US...curious, eh? I don't know who supplies the underlying protocol stack, but each vendor seems to stake a claim to one in particular...XNS, TCP, OSI, etc. I have 'spliced' a stack from one vendor into another's client, but doing that on the server is beyond my abilities at this time...the server code being more difficult than a straight-forward NDIS hack. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+