HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP-UX manual

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    VISUALIZE Workstations NT & HP-UX F uncti onal Interopera bi lity By Scott Ke y Solution S pecialist[...]

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    02/04/00 HP VISUALIZE WORKST ATIONS 1 Introduction W indows NT has much of the functionalit y of HP-UX. This similarity exists at many levels, from an integrated, secure GUI user interf ace environm ent to coexistence o f the two Operating Systems (OSs) at various levels of interop erab ility and integration. For instance, the interoperabilit y of [...]

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    02/04/00 HP VISUALIZE WORKST ATIONS 2 this is not don e, text files can become unreadable by the host system editor. Howev er, more soph isticated methods are available. Movin g up to t he ne xt leve l, the under lyin g ne t wor k file syste m for NT i s b ased o n SMB (System Message Block), whereas the file system for the HP-UX network is NFS (Ne[...]

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    02/04/00 HP VISUALIZE WORKST ATIONS 3 caution: be sure th e rlp command has the Berkley switch options set, to print postscript files from HP-UX through NT. Terminal and Application Access There are many s oftware packages that allow terminal access or application display to/from HP-UX and Windo ws NT. For terminal access, HP-UX prov ides telnet an[...]

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    02/04/00 HP VISUALIZE WORKST ATIONS 4 Table 1 : Native Functionality for HP-UX/NT Interoperabi lity HP-UX W indows NT (Rev. 4. 0) File S ystem (network ing) NFS SMB File S ystem (enterpris e/distri buted) DFS DFS (com patible with NT DFS only) File S ystem (disk ) HFS, Vx FS, LIF NTF S, FAT File S ystem (misc ella neous ) FAT FAT File Sy stem (CD-R[...]