Windows 2000 and UNIX Integration Guide (Network Professional's Library) - Softcover

Burnett, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007212167X ISBN 13: 9780072121674

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

This text presents real-world solutions to common problems related to UNIX and Windows 2000 integration. It discusses both commercial and freeware products that can be used to implement integration solutions, covering tools and applications such as SAMBA. The CD-ROM offers a software resource kit.

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Review

Getting diverse systems to work productively together is a big part of any system administrator's job. Windows 2000 & UNIX Integration Guide conveys some information about how to get Microsoft's latest network operating environment to happily coexist with UNIX. The book approaches the integration challenge as a series of individual interfaces, each of which can be dealt with most effectively on its own. To be more specific, it explains a number of services--file systems, electronic mail, printing, and so on--and shows how to make clients of each kind talk to servers of the other kind, and vice versa.

A large part of this book has to do with explaining each environment to those who have experience with the other--Windows in UNIX terms and UNIX in Windows terms. That's helpful when UNIX people need to work with NT people and get their systems to inter-operate. As part of that coverage, instructions specific to each of the operating systems describe such processes as setting up a Web server and configuring the distribution of electronic mail. Sometimes the discussion seems a bit scattershot (everything from scripting with Perl to the basic Windows 2000 console commands is addressed), but the approach is generally sound. --David Wall, Amazon.com

Topics covered: Accessing Windows NT and Windows 2000 resources and service from within UNIX, and accessing UNIX resources from within Windows NT and 2000. File services, print services, mail distribution, and Internet servers all get their due, as do cross-platform administration operations like file backups and scripting. UNIX variants BSD and Linux are discussed in depth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007212167X
• ISBN 13: 9780072121674
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544