General
How do I?
- Estimate how many sysadmins my site needs? A hard question answered by Mark Verber in an article on the subject for Unix Review in 1991.
- Set up modems and terminals? See Stokely Consulting's SunOS 4 guide or the Solaris 2.x guide.
Security
Sysadmin courses on the web
Tools for System Configuration
Software
UNIX/POSIX on NT
- Korn's U/WIN
A set of libraries and utilities allowing UNIX commands to run on top of the Win 32 subsystem on NT and Windows 95.
- Interix (formerly OpenNT)
A replacement for Microsoft's POSIX subsystem allowing true integration between UNIX commands and Windows NT. Now supports Berkeley sockets from within the system allowing NT to run an X server.
- NuTCRACKER
Designed as a porting environment allowing migration of UNIX programs to the NT environment, the product contains the MKS Toolkit of UNIX/POSIX commands.
- MKS Toolkit
MKS have many UNIX/POSIX tools running on various Wintel platforms.
- The Cygwin Project
The Cygwin group at Cygnus have ported many GNU tools into the Win32 environment.
UNIX/NT integration
- NTrigue
Uses multi-user extensions to NT to permit access to Windows applications onto every type of desktop machine in an environment.
- WinDD
Multi-user NT based system with a central server permitting access from Windows and X-based UNIX workstations.
- unixintegration.com
A site focusing on UNIX and NT integration issues, sponsored by UNIX Review and NT Systems.
Filesystems
- SAMBA
A free implementation of the SMB protocol and a Netbios nameserver makes your UNIX file systems and printers accessible as shares to NT and Win 95 platforms.
- VisionFS
From SCO, an SMB server running on SCO Open Server 5.x, SCO UnixWare 2.x, SunSoft Solaris 2.x, and Hewlett Packard UX 9.x.
- rumba
A client running in UNIX user space allows UNIX to mount Windows file systems using the SMB protocol.
Useful sites
Security
- NTBugtraq
Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List
- NT Security FAQ
Nuff said.
- ntsecurity.com
Enterprise Audit Policy and Event Log Management and Reporting for Windows NT®
- Somarsoft
Produces useful NT utilities, the site has many NT security links.
- NT Research
The site contains several Windows NT White papers.
- NT Shop
Bills itself as 'the place on the Net to find NT Security news'.
Microsoft
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