Re: Network & system adm

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 11:05 AM 9/23/00 , Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:12:16PM +0600, Selim Jahangir wrote:
> : Dear all
> : The fundamental differences between Network administration and system 
> administration is what ?
> :
> : If the answer is with u then please send it to me .
>
> One guy cares for systems, the other guy cares for the network.  I hate to
> play the role of Captain Obvious, but isn't it really obvious???

And by 'systems' Jason means computers or hosts.  Although you asked about 
fundamental differences, the two terms describe similar jobs as a sys admin 
must know something about networks and a net admin usually knows something 
about systems.  In many contexts, the net admin is a "higher level" 
position than sys admin.  A system admin often spends a lot of his time 
with user issues "How do I log in" whereas a network admin's "users" may 
well be system admins. Although not always.

-Alan