Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Planning a Workgroup
Services for Data Exchange with Personal Computers
Chapter 2128
Examples of terminal emulators include:
• telnet - can be used to connect to PC’s (requires the PC to run a
telnet server application), and can be used on PC’s (in client mode) to
connect to HP-UX systems.
• Hyperterminal (found in several versions of Microsoft’s operating
systems) - can be used on PC’s to connect to HP-UX systems via a
modem.
telnet
telnet, originally a UNIX utility, is now found in versions of Microsoft’s
Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server operating systems.
It can be used to log in to an HP-UX system from a personal computer. It
can also be used to log in to a personal computer from an HP-UX system.
In either case, the computer initiating the connection must be running a
telnet client, and the computer receiving the connection must be
running a telnet server application. On HP-UX systems the telnet
server application is known as the telnetd daemon.
For details on how to transfer files using telnet, see “Configuring HP-UX
Systems for Terminal Emulation” on page 414.
Versions of UNIX-like Operating Systems
Although it is not difficult to exchange data between HP-UX and
personal computers running either a Microsoft operating system or an
Apple Macintosh operating system, the fact that the computers are
running different operating systems tends to limit the number of ways to
exchange your data between them. Those operating systems were not
designed to be a lot like UNIX, and therefore their compatibility with
UNIX-based operating systems such as HP-UX is minimal.
However, there are operating systems available for personal computers
that were specifically designed to be highly like UNIX: most notably, an
operating system called LINUX. Such operating systems, by design, have
a lot more in common with UNIX, and your options for sharing data
between these UNIX-like operating systems and HP-UX are likely to be
more abundant.