HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

Interfacing with Microsoft Windows Systems
The following topics describe the process of adding PC/NT systems into a work group.
• “Hardware Connections” (page 106)
• “Configuring HP-UX Systems for Terminal Emulation” (page 107)
— “Telnet” (page 107)
— “Other Terminal Emulators” (page 110)
• “Configuring HP-UX Systems for File Transfer” (page 91)
— “FTP (File Transfer Protocol)” (page 91)
• “Sharing Directories between HP-UX and MS Windows” (page 106)
Hardware Connections
Adding a personal computer (PC) to a workgroup is much more a logical operation
than a physical one. The only requirement from a hardware perspective is to give the
personal computer physical access to the other computers in the workgroup. This
connection is usually (but not always) a network connection. It could, however, be a
modem (dial-in) connection: a telephone-based UUCP connection, or a Serial Line
Internet Protocol (SLIP) connection for example.
The requirements of this connection depend on how you plan to interact with the PC.
For example, occasionally transferring small ASCII files or exchanging text-based e-mail
between the users of the PC and the users of your HP-UX computers isn’t likely to be
a problem for a serial line because comparatively little data are being transferred
between computers. However, if you plan to constantly share X Window screens
between the HP-UX systems and the PC, you had better have a high-speed connection,
such as a network connection between the two types of computers, or the performance
of your applications will be unacceptably slow (if they work at all).
When connecting the PC to your other computers, you should consider:
• The amount of data to be exchanged between the PC and the other computers in
your workgroup
• How often you plan to access the data on the PC (occasionally? frequently?
constantly?)
• The type of data you want to exchange (ASCII text? graphics? sound? video?)
• How will you exchange the data (file transfer? shared windowing environment?
electronic mail?)
Sharing Directories between HP-UX and MS Windows
You can use the HP CIFS product (or third-party products) to share data between
HP-UX systems and Windows systems.
106 Configuring Networking