[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:08:50 -0700
Grant Johnson <grant at amadensor.com> wrote:

> >2) I need a front end that interacts with SQL Server 2000 remotely -
> >like enterprise manager does on windows.  Is there such an app?
> >Enterprise manager gives me a drill down into things like stored
> >procedures, tables, etc for a list of databases on our windows database
> >server.  
> >
> That will happen as soon as they publish the API.  In other words, there
> will be blizzards in Tampa first.

Not necessarily. If they've stayed with the Sybase architecture, all this
is stored in the database itself, in dictionary tables. Ferexample, in
Sybase, you could type "@sp_help_text" or some such, and get a listing of
the stored procedures.

> >4) Some great howto on getting my new linux box to authenticate against
> >a windows active directory box.
> >
> PAM Samba?????  I don't know for sure.  At my house, everything 
> authenticated against the Linux box.

Active directory is an LDAP application. I'd look at
http://www.openldap.org/ for more info. The PAM LDAP should work with it,
as long as it's a conformant LDAP server.

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