From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Geo"  wrote in message news:43643655{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> In 1997 during the testing of W2K I got to meet with a bunch of the NT
> team
> and I asked them why NT didn't have any hosts.allow/hosts.deny type
> capabilities (IP based controls) beyond the base filtering capabilities.
> The
> answer I got was that it didn't fit with their user based model.
>
> At the time I didn't fully understand their point but I do today. It's got
> nothing to do with the technical aspects, it's got to do with the
> licensing
> aspects. Because of this, there is very little interest from MS in
> providing
> IP based share access. It makes the per user charge model too complex and
> opens too many loopholes (like a proxy could give thousands of users
> access
> via one IP).

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I see, I undestand, but I cannot belive that .. :) Still, I'm sure that
there is to be some system driver which can handle that.

Thank You for the explanation!


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M.

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