Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.5 provides the tools and environment that IT professionals and developers need to integrate Windows with UNIX and Linux environments
I use it. It has pdksh and most of the gnu utilities. There is a lot of info on the link you published, especially on TechNet. Also more SFU tools are available here.
I used SFU for a long while, before switching to cygwin for day-to-day scripting work - although SFU is superior if you're managing/masquerading NFS shares via Windows servers.
It can certainly run X-apps - I regularly run xfig using it on a Windows machine. How well it runs stuff that hasn't been specifically ported to Cygwin, however, I haven't yet tried. Even trying to compile CLI utils is a complete nightmare under Cygwin.
To be honest, I'd suggest going with VMWare if you want a graphical Linux environment running on a Windows host.
I am not too familiar with linux, so please keep that in mind while reading this post. We have a few linux servers joined to the domain, and linux services for windows running. I have a user that can connect to one linux server, but not another.
I ran the cat /etc/passwrd and noticed the user... (0 Replies)
I just installed Windows Services for Unix. I want to create a ksh program and schedule it using the Windows scheduler. How would I go about doing it?
What would the command line look like?
Do I always have to be in a ksh shell to run the batch program even if it is not scheduled?
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I just installed Services for Unix on a Windows 2003 DC. I have a Debian box with Samba shares for our storage drive. I'm trying to test a Linux client.
She is unable to read or write from the Samba shares. Her login is being mapped to the same name from NIS to AD. She can login from a windows... (0 Replies)
Greetings All,
Telnet has stopped working on one of my servers and I need to restart it. But I don't know the command for it in UNIX.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!! (1 Reply)
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