VISUALIZE Workstations NT & HP-UX Functional Interoperability By Scott Key Solution Specialist
Introduction Windows NT has much of the functionality of HP-UX. This similarity exists at many levels, from an integrated, secure GUI user interface environment to coexistence of the two Operating Systems (OSs) at various levels of interoperability and integration. For instance, the interoperability of HP-UX and NT allows these two operating systems to mutually participate in printing and several different forms of file and application sharing.
this is not done, text files can become unreadable by the host system editor. However, more sophisticated methods are available. Moving up to the next level, the underlying network file system for NT is based on SMB (System Message Block), whereas the file system for the HP-UX network is NFS (Network File System). This discontinuity does not present a problem however, since there are many alternative software packages available to transfer files over a mixed network of UNIX and Windows NT systems.
caution: be sure the rlp command has the Berkley switch options set, to print postscript files from HP-UX through NT. Terminal and Application Access There are many software packages that allow terminal access or application display to/from HP-UX and Windows NT. For terminal access, HP-UX provides telnet and rlogin/remsh/rexec clients as well as telnetd and rlogind daemons to allow multi-user access. NT on the other hand, only provides telnet, rsh (similar to remsh in HP-UX) and rexec clients.
Table 1 : Native Functionality for HP-UX/NT Interoperability HP-UX NFS Windows NT (Rev. 4.
