Services for UNIX

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Interoperability is essential in today's increasingly heterogeneous computing environment. By providing core interoperability components, Microsoft® Windows® Services for UNIX offers the means to integrate Windows into an existing UNIX environment and migrate existing UNIX scripts into the Windows environment, simplifying administrative tasks.

This chapter assumes an understanding of the information in "UNIX Interoperability Concepts" in this book.

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Important

At this printing, prior to the release of Microsoft® Windows® 2000, the current version of Services for UNIX is Version 1.0 for Microsoft® Windows NT® version 4.0. For updated information on new features, see the Microsoft Web site at https://www.microsoft.com.

In This Chapter

Overview

File Sharing with NFS

Telnet Server and Client

Password Synchronization

UNIX Utilities and Korn Shell

  • For more information about Windows file permissions, NTFS, and FAT, see "File Systems" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit Server Operations Guide .

  • For more information about TCP/IP, see "Introduction to TCP/IP" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit TCP/IP Core Networking Guide .

  • For more information about authentication, see "Authentication" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit Distributed Systems Guide .

  • For more information about security, see "Planning Distributed Security" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit Deployment Planning Guide .

  • For more information about printing, see "Network Printing" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit Server Operations Guide .