Advanced Server Overview and Installation

Introduction to Advanced Server for UNIX Compatibility

Product Manual U7613-J-Z815-6-76

● Administration: The primary administration tool for Advanced Server for UNIX are the

Windows NT Server Tools, which can be used from a Windows NT workstation or a

Windows NT server. They are also available under Windows 3.1, Windows for

Workgroups, and Windows 95/98.

The NT Server Tools replace the graphical user interface netadmin.

Administration tasks can still be carried out via the UNIX console.

● Monitoring: The network is monitored with the graphical monitoring tools Event Viewer,

Performance Monitor, and Server Manager which supplement the Alerter service.

● New security concept: Advanced Server for UNIX has a more extensive security

concept, which consists of user identification, user authentication, access control, and

access logging.

● Remote Procedure Calls (RPC): Advanced Server for UNIX supports the Microsoft

Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs).

● Browser service: This service is used by Windows applications like Explorer/File

Manager and Print Manager as well as by the net view command.

● Support for UNIX quotas (configurable).

● Name Space Mapping: Mapping of long file names to DOS 8.3 naming conventions.

● Mixed Case Support: Configurable support for uppercase in file and directory names.

● New utilities: accget, accadm, and userget.

● Interoperability with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98.

● Configuration of NetBIOS (For further information please refer to the section entitled

section “Configuring NetBIOS”).

● Migration tools: Advanced Server for UNIX has migration tools with which existing

user accounts, access lists etc. are converted.

● No licensing with key diskettes; no additional user extensions.

● Manual pages for the API; the NetAccessEnum function has been omitted from the API.

● Utilities for generating installation diskettes for clients.

● The net error and net audit commands are obsolete; the net access command as well as

the new net perms command can only be invoked with parameters.

● Version 3.0 of MS Network Client

● German language message texts in a separate package

● In the lanman.ini file a series of parameters have been omitted. After an upgrade instal-

lation, these parameter entries should be removed manually.