Re: ok, MSFT never works!
From: Joe (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:47:20 -0800
Alun,
I happened to read this just for kicks and what do you
mean your software? By mey perception you sound as if you
created Microsoft. ???
Infamous Joe
>-----Original Message-----
>In article <15f3801c416ca$b2f6a550
$a301280a@phx.gbl>, "The Mac User"
><joeydpal@netscape.net> wrote:
>>Why is it so difficult to set up ftp on server 2003 but
on
>>my small iMac running Panther all I have to do to turn
on
>>ftp is open System Preferences>Sharing>FTP Access and
I'm
>>in! With Windows, it's crazy? I still get a 530 error
>>and I know that my user has permissions to the folder????
>
>Do not confuse ease with correctness. With Windows,
installing the FTP
>server is only one part of the process. You then have to
configure it, so
>that the system isn't accidentally wide open.
>
>Macs exemplify simplicity over security. Windows went
down that route, and
>got its fingers burned. Windows 2000 Server used to
install the FTP server
>by default. One of the biggest problems I had in tech
support was from
>people who called up complaining that my FTP server would
give an error that
>"the address is already in use". That meant that they'd
been running an
>open FTP server on their network, in some cases for
years, without realising
>that they were doing so.
>
>Consider where 'ease' takes you. Sure, you might want
the line between
>"ease" and "security" drawn in one place, but that's not
to say that drawing
>it in another place is necessarily wrong.
>
>For what it's worth, some of my users write emails to me
complaining that
>they had to do something more than just install my
software in order to get
>their FTP servers working. Me, I think that's a good
thing. Noone's going
>to accidentally install my software and turn their
machine into an unsecured
>warez site.
>
>Alun.
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