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I need to add a Sun workstation to our Win2k/NT lab network. It needs to be able to access shares on the servers. Do I need to load Services for Unix on the PDC? If so, what components do I need?

I can find plenty of information about adding Unix servers, but not Unix workstations.

Thanks,

Rob

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by insatiable

You can build the Unix box as a server or workstation, the only difference between the two are the way you handle the services on them.
I don't know what services you need to load on NT for the Unix, but for unix to access the NT drives, I believe it needs to be able to mount them as nfs.
Good luck!

by cpfeiffe

PCNFS can be installed on Unix to allow the NT machines to access file systems n the Unix machine. A Unix NFS client such as reflections, exceed, etc. will also be needed on the NT machine. This however is only a one way street. If you want the Unix machine to mount NFS drives it will need to use something like Samba (CIFS). You can get Samba from www.samba.org. If you install this on the Unix machine (server/workstation doesn't matter) you will now have a two way street. CIFS allows Unixto read PC style file systems. This will also make Unix file systems appear in a format PCs can read. Samba has several different levels of security to use. You can have the Unix server authorize access (you will have to keep up with NT accounts on the Unix machine too - not the best idea). You can have a point to point verification (you will need to use a password each time the mount is created - not good for automatic mounts). You can let the NT domain handle the verification (you createan account for the Unix machine in the NT domain and add the Unix machine to the domain - sounds like the best idea for your situation). There are several other ways to do this that aren't as widely used. The samba documents will explain all. Samba was originally created by HP and has become independent. HP still releases a version of CIFS that works with Solaris as well.

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