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12TH SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - Dec 6-11, 1998 - Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
 
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T13PM   PC/UNIX Connectivity: UNIX Server as a File and Print Host for Windows Clients NEW!
Joseph Radin, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Who should attend: System administrators and technical managers who wish to evaluate or set up UNIX file and print servers in an heterogeneous environment consisting of Windows and UNIX hosts. People who attend this tutorial will leave with a thorough understanding of how one can create Microsoft compatible file and printer sharing without the users ever knowing that these services emanate from a UNIX server.

Because the problems it tackles are complex, configuring a product providing file and printer sharing is often difficult. This tutorial will teach you how to adapt UNIX for effective use in an heterogeneous environment as a file and print server. Topics to be covered include:

-    Server based vs. client based solution
-    Comparison and benefits of various commercial and non-commercial products (client types, NT domain security component vs. none)
-    Phased approach: architecture, migration planning, sizing, implementation (server consolidation and upsizing, moving from PC-based NFS to a Server-Centric solution)
-    Using UNIX based server to process logins from Windows NT and Windows 95 machines
-    Integration of a UNIX file and printing server into a large (multidomain multisubnet) Windows network.
-    Advanced Server for UNIX based products as the NT domain controller:
*    Managing trust relationships, domain controller, local and network authentication
*    Managing user accounts, profiles, local and global groups, rights and privileges, access control list
*    Managing NT style auditing, error logging and viewing via event viewer
*    Managing NT system policy
*    NT server diagnostic tool by using Advanced Server for UNIX admin tool

-    Dealing with problems caused by the differences between the UNIX and Windows file systems
-    UNIX workstation to look "like" a Windows PC by using Citrix technologies

Using the material presented, participants will have the tools to administer the new environment, including:

-    Establishing domain trust relationships
-    Establishing user accounts
-    Creating local and global groups
-    Creating and modifying login scripts
-    Establishing home directories
-    Passwords and password restrictions
-    Granting and revoking user and group permissions
-    User and group file permission
-    Security audit and error logs
-    Troubleshooting
 


 Joseph Radin   is a senior systems consultant at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Joseph (Microsoft Certified) has over fifteen years progressive software engineering experience in delivering state of the art systems and solutions. Among his accomplishments are the publication of several books: XWindow Inside and Out, UNIX System Administration Guide, Open Computing Guide to UNIXWare. He also co-authored part of the LAN Times Guide to Interoperability.
 


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