Re: Newbie: Infos about Windows NT Authentication

[David Brown <dw...@webitplanet.com>]

Jasper Dammann writes: 

> Hello,
> where can I get basic-information about Windows NT Authentication and
> Tomcat. I read the Tomcat Documentation JNDI-Resource HOW-TO and REALM
> HOW-TO, but I didn’t understand for example how to configure the Windows NT
> Server to run Tomcat with Windows NT Authentication … 
> 
> thanks for help,
> Jasper 
> 
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Hello Jasper, the actual os should not matter. what matters is ur http 
server. i'm running a linux box w/ apache http server that talks to tomcat. 
though possible, apache can run on nt but it seems many people elect to run 
ms iis. iis presents its own set of problems: 1) more difficult to config w/ 
tomcat. 2) to run a publicly accessible server u will have to run a firewall 
router appliance like a cisco router because nt/win2k/xp have no built-in 
firewall protection that is reliable. also, iis is one of the most security 
compromised servers on the planet. check out ur local isp running linux or 
solaris servers and take a look at their syslog logs to see the amount of 
compromised iis servers running that r looking for more platforms to 
compromise. also, the cisco tcp stack has flaws that r easily compromised if 
the router is not configured correctly. finally, look at: 
http://www.netcraft.net/survey/. hope this helps, david.

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