Windows Services for UNIX

This is not a Windows blog.  However, I wanted to mention a Microsoft product called Windows Services for UNIX.   This is a Windows Add-on that provides some UNIX interoperability.

It provides things like; Password Syncronization between Windows and UNIX, a Telnet Server, Remote Shell execution Services, a NFS Server, a NFS Client, and more.

I’ve only used it for a NFS Client.  It’s a “cheap” way to add NFS mounting capabilities to a Windows workstation.  I run primarily a UNIX (and Linux) environment at home, but I do have a few Windows workstations.   With this, I can keep all of my data on a UNIX NFS server and not have to mess with Samba/CIFS to access the data.

I won’t go into much details on how to configure it, but it’s pretty straightforward.

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This entry was written by theunixguy, posted on April 16, 2009 at 5:40 pm, and filed under Tips and Tricks and tagged , .

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