UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi all...

this is my question: i have two servers (sun and windows). In the Sun server i have solaris 5.7. The Windows Server is Win 2000.

in the unix machine (sun) i have a program ksh, and i would like execute it from my windows server (run the ksh program what is in the unix machine from my windows machine). how can i do that? is that possible?

please, i'll thank any idea that you can give me
thanks

DebianJ

cygwin comes with the public domain ksh (pdksh) that runs on windows. This should do the trick but you'll probably have to do a pile of cross platform standardization work. I have done some limited testing in this regard but have never had a requirement to go further. I would be surprised if someone doesn't run ksh scripts in both environments.

I think the OP is saying he wants to initiate the ksh script on the Sun Server from the W2K box. You can use cygwin on windows. Just run the command (substitute for user,sunbox, and scriptname):

Code:

ssh user@sunbox "scriptname"

Dangral:

this code: ssh user@sunbox "scriptname"
can i put it in a program (a Windows's program)?

i want what a program in windows call to the ksh program what it´s in Unix and the ksh program can execute it.

am i dreaming? or that is possible?

thanks for your help...
DebianJ

If you have SSH on the windows computer, then yes, you can do it. There are several ssh clients available and cygwin has one.

TMARIKLE:

sorry the question, but i`m new in this....

you said i need SSH on my windows machine (the "SSH CLIENT", and in this case, it would be cygwin),

but do i need install something ("SSH SERVER" or something like that) in my unix machine? if i have to do, how can i know if i already have it?
i`m using solaris 5.7.
i write "ssh " in my unix machine and nothing happens (ksh: ssh: not found).

thanks for your help

I'm afraid that I can't provide you with the answer on this one since I have not done any UNIX administration in 10 years. Old UNIX servers don't always have ssh installed and that's a matter of aquiring some kind of server-side product from some vendor.

However, in the absence of SSH, you have other utilities that should do the same thing. "rsh" should be installed on most systems. I believe the cygwin utilities also have rsh.

At this point, that is as far as I can help. Other folks on this forum are UNIX administrators and very familiar with rsh and others. Maybe one of them could chime in.