Overview

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Services for Unix supports the following UNIX platforms:

  • Digital® UNIX

  • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX® 10.1+

  • Sun Solaris® SPARC 2.5.1+

Services for UNIX provides the following features:

Network File System    NFS server and client software enables users of Microsoft® Windows NT®–based computers to access files on UNIX computers and users of UNIX to access files on Windows NT-based computers.

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Services for UNIX does not provide print services. Windows 2000 includes native line printer remote (LPR) and line printer daemon (LPD) UNIX print services. For more information, see "Network Printing" in the Microsoft ® Windows ®  2000 Server Resource Kit Server Operations Guide .

Telnet Client and Server    Telnet Client and Server give users the ability to remotely log into and run commands on Windows NT-based and UNIX-based computers.

Password Synchronization    Services for UNIX synchronizes passwords for users of Windows NT-based and UNIX-based computers. Changes to Windows passwords are automatically propagated to the UNIX-based computer.

UNIX Utilities and Scripting    Services for Unix provides UNIX commands and Korn shell, which you can use to automate common processes and administrative tasks across Windows and UNIX platforms.