IT mgrs/admin/directors, CTOs - Page 5

SANguru · #41 02-27-2007, 11:20 PM

haha.. I hear ya... wait til you get into NAS mixed mode authentication with CIFS and NFS... don't think you have a gateway in your environment right?there's a reason why they call it usercrapper. Til this day, I still hate messing with UIDs, GIDs, and still get pretty confused.

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Originally Posted by gresch

I'm just talking about how file/directory permissions are set within the admin tools. i.e. to give your id access to directory xyz in netware i simply give you permission to that directory and you can map to it.

The same thing in MS means that the user has to be able to see the ENTIRE directory structure from the root to the directory and they have to be DENIED access to all of the other directories up the tree from the target directory.

It's ridiculous.

Don't even get me started on group permissioning.

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JCL · #42 02-27-2007, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SANguru

there are actually quite a few banks still running Z-OS, AS400 mainframes with apps programmed in Cobol. I'm surprised a lot of those survived Y2K but what do I know.. LOL

Also over a hundred heavy equipment dealers, all on AS400s with a legacy system written in Cobol. Yes, finding programmers is hard. I wasn't involved then, but I heard that Y2K was tough with that application too.

SANguru · #43 02-27-2007, 11:24 PM

no doubt. I was heavily involved in my old company's Y2K conversion. (damn that was a long time ago!!) At the time it wasn't really hard, just hard to FIND the people who could do it.. lost art if you know what I mean.

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Originally Posted by JCL

Also over a hundred heavy equipment dealers, all on AS400s with a legacy system written in Cobol. Yes, finding programmers is hard. I wasn't involved then, but I heard that Y2K was tough with that application too.

the head · #44 02-28-2007, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by SANguru

no doubt. I was heavily involved in my old company's Y2K conversion. (damn that was a long time ago!!) At the time it wasn't really hard, just hard to FIND the people who could do it.. lost art if you know what I mean.

Exactly the problem the fix was not a big issue just the people with the skills to change what needed to be fixed

Also AT&T still uses cobol systems my Uncle is a cobol programmer currently his job consists of teaching new young programmers Cobol to support frame relay systems

Our program may be dated but I can honsetly say we have not had any problems with this system we update around the core program about every six months (support of IP based printing etc) and upgrade to new servers every two years this system also interfaces with our Apache webserver and two SQL servers to provide active invintory and ordering capabilities to our customers...Using ICE.TCP to interface with the system from workstations. Looking at SAP or Citrix solutions for our system change...anyone have insight on these?

E61Silver · #45 02-28-2007, 02:30 PM

I am not trying to hijack this tread but was wondering if all you smart people could tell us non IT types what we need to do our computers to accommodate the change in Day Light Savings time.

Thank you,

Blue

the head · #46 02-28-2007, 02:57 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388

E61Silver · #47 02-28-2007, 03:50 PM

So if we have the current updates, SP2 for XP, we are ok and don't have to do anthing else?

JCL · #48 02-28-2007, 05:25 PM

That is the approach I am taking with my home computers and network.

And for the record, I am not a smart IT guy, I just have a lot of them working for me

E61Silver · #49 02-28-2007, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JCL

That is the approach I am taking with my home computers and network.

And for the record, I am not a smart IT guy, I just have a lot of them working for me

Thank you!

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