[ros-general] networks

[Richard Campbell]

We are writing a Microsoft Windows compatible operating system...this 
means we must do things the way windows does them...however you are more 
than welcome to change the way a particular thing works, and either 
submit it to the list for review or make it one of your own side 
projects/addons.  Sorry if this sounds rather zealotish, but that's the 
way it has to be.

Besides, we aren't even remotely close to that level of networking yet 
and probably won't be for months, if not years, to come.

Richard

ros at xzite.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

>i know it may be a little early in the development of ReactOS to open this
>particular can of worms, but i would like to sound out opinion on the way
>that NT/W2K/XP implements domain logons.
>i maintain several small school networks of mainly win9x machines with rh9
>samba servers. so far so good. add xp to the equation and it all goes tits
>up. the standard ms implementation depends on copying all user data to the
>client machine on logon, and copying it all back on logoff. everone knows
>that this is hugely wasteful of network resources, leads to enormous
>amounts of user data being scattered across the network on client machine
>hard drives, and allows "false logons" where the impression is given that
>a user has logged on, (cached logons) when they haven't, because the
>server was bogged down with data transfers to other users who had logged
>on. the ms driven solution is the ridiculous Gb network cards, or hardware
>solutions to implementation problems. this default behaviour is almost
>impossible to prevent, (trust me, i have tried) could we implement a far
>simpler system where user data is stored on the server, (be it linux or
>ms) and accessed when required rather than copied back and forth on mass.
>this would lead to fast logons, reliable data transfers and less stressed
>sysadmins. does anyone else have any opinions on this?
>
>les
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