Active Directory Domain on Ubuntu

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:52 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>
>> I think I can see your dilemma, but can't you set-up, say, your own
>> desktop using, say, Ubuntu, with all the necessaries including Wine or
>> VB so that the Windows' -er- "stuff" will work? Don't have to tell
>> anyone - just simply install it
>
> Not in "properly-run" companies. I work in a large team of
> Solaris/Linux, AIX, and HP-UX sysadmins. We all use Windows and don't
> have any control over our boxes. For example, if we don't like the
> default nix sysadmin app of putty and want to use teraterm, we have to
> ask the desktop support team to install it for us.
>

Yeah, love "properly-run" companies. Like when the programmers 
(Engineering) calls the shots on what software and versions will be used 
and the sysadmins (Operations) have to live with it. Running 
unmaintained distros just because Engineering have not got their act 
together and ported their scripts over to perl 5.8 from perl 5.6 was 
sure fun. Sure glad I managed to sneak in postfix to replace the lead 
programmer's modified mysql enabled sendmail and got to keep in it. 
Welcome to The IT version of Hell's Kitchen: Hell's ISP for Sysadmins.

Must be more fun to have a political divide between the Windows admins 
and the UNIX/Linux admins. Turf war!