Re: SMS vs ANAT (apple/orange?)

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:38:47 -0400

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
• Next message: Steve Hyman: "Re: Sending email to Windows"
• Previous message: Steve Hyman: "Re: Virtual PC crashes"
• Maybe in reply to: Steve Hyman: "Virtual PC crashes"

>-----Original Message-----
>From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
>[mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick C Flumignan
>Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 10:22 AM
>To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
>Subject: SMS vs ANAT (apple/orange?)
>
>has anyone had experiences with MS's SMS-Server Management Software, i
>think that's what the acronym stands for-with the MacOS? We are
putting
>together some proposals, and there are two competing approaches to
>managing our Macs.
>I would like to use ANAT, but it is more expensive than getting a
>license for SMS. This is suppose to be able to push software out to
the
>Macs from our NT console, but what else can it do?
>
SMS is slow, stupid and does not work properly. The SMS client is easy
to disable on the Macs, so it probably will be. It is not smart enough
to know that ethernet is not connected so it will give you about five
error messages if ethernet is unavailable or appletalk is set for any
other port. It will send updates to things that are already resident on
the system, office 97 translators to a user that has office 97 for
example. It can also take minutes to finish at boot without letting you
put it in the background even on a fast machine.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

• Next message: Steve Hyman: "Re: Sending email to Windows"
• Previous message: Steve Hyman: "Re: Virtual PC crashes"
• Maybe in reply to: Steve Hyman: "Virtual PC crashes"

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2 on Sun Jul 12 1998 - 02:17:20 PDT