SFU - Services for Unix

[Karthik S S]

Hi
Have any of you worked on MS Services For Unix??.
Basically we are planning to centralise the administration of NT based computers in our organization. Though, the softwares like PC Anywhere/Dameware could help in these kind of activiities we would like to have a simpler and faster less graphic intensive tool for this ( like Unix Xterm). With SFU, there is a telnet service and Interix xterm emulator are available. But I am not sure what kind of graphical tools these could support. ( I was not able to run even some simple programs like calc.exe after telnetting to the SFU host from a remote machine and it was giving an error like windows applications are not supported in a telnet session. Now I really wonder what is the use of having these services ...!!!!??. And also I dont see a ftp server in SFU. Can anybody help me in this regard??

Thanks in advance
Karthik S S

[Pal Szabo_1]

I suggest using rdesktop.
www.rdesktop.org
It is a free RDP client for Unix based machines.

[T. M. Louah]

If you are interested in HP-UX tools for multiple hosts management, HP Servicecontrol Manager offers a great deal of that:

Overview
SCM is an easy-to-use, multi-system management solution with a Web-enabled interface and a command line interface. SCM delivers multi-system access to all key system administration tools for fault monitoring, configuration, and workload management. Administrators with multiple HP systems running primarily HP-UX or Linux? benefit the most from using SCM.
SCM provides management of more systems with increased control and decreased errors throughout the IT environment. The biggest advantage is SCM's synergistic integration of multiple administrative tasks providing a significant improvement in productivity for virtually all multi-system configurations. In fact, sites with multiple HP servers with similar or the same configurations experience as much as a 5x improvement in system administration productivity when they implement SCM. SCM provides system administrators with:

Increased productivity through a single point of administration for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows manageability tools (Windows manageability provided through launching HP Proliant Insight Manager7)

Increased efficiency through multi-system management capabilities such as group operations and role-based management

Improved security through roles-based management, authentication and encryption

Ensured accountability through audit logging of changes across the IT environment

Expanded flexibility through the use of customized scripts and commands executed across multiple systems simultaneously

More Info are found here:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-1882/5187-1882.html

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/B8339-90030.html

Here is some additional readings:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=5696

Cheers,
T?