Windows and
Linux Integration

TNTUG

12/09/03

Jason Tower

Cerient Technologies

<jason@cerient.net>

Why Bother with Linux?

Less expensive

Modest hardware requirements

Strong security record

Excellent reliability

Highly customizable

Get Started with
Desktop Apps

Mozilla/Thunderbird/Firebird

OpenOffice

The Gimp

Everybody do the Samba!

Linux implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol

Low overhead

Can operate in several modes

Simple (ala Win9x)

PDC (ala WinNT)

Samba3 adds AD support

More Samba
Goodness

Can authenticate against local files, LDAP, SQL, other servers, etc.

Supports roaming profiles

Works in reverse too – lets Linux mount windows shares

Mail Call!

Multiple MTAs – sendmail, postfix, qmail

User access (pop/imap) with UW, courier, cyrus

Easy to add Webmail

Mail is Fun for the
Whole Family

Server side sorting with procmail

Spam tagging with spamassassin

Virus scanning with ClamAV et al.

Use amavis or mailscanner to make an effective gateway server

That World Wide
Web is going places

Apache is the de facto web server standard

Virtual hosting made easy

Hundreds (if not thousands) of related projects

Infinitely flexible and customizable

Don't Mope if
You're Remote

Rdesktop – great RDP client for Linux

VNC for cross platform access

Use putty as a win32 SSH client

WinSCP for secure file transfer

The Network is
the Computer

Roll your own stateful firewall with IPTables

Supports all types of NAT

Routing – static, RIP, OSPF, BGP

Virtual interfaces are a snap

DHCP and DNS to make your life easy

Big Brother
is Watching

Watch packets in real time with Ethereal packet sniffer

Port scan hosts with Nmap

Monitor hosts, devices, and services with OpenNMS, Nagios, et al.

Halt! Friend or Foe?

Provide directory services with OpenLDAP

Strong authentication with Kerberos

FreeRadius

Dupe disks or partitions with dd

Network based cloning with G4U

Knoppix – 1001 uses and counting

Handy Utilities

You Can Never Be
Too Rich or Too Thin

Thin clients are a natural

Boot using rom-o-matic floppy or PXE

X is a natural client/server network display protocol

Can still use Rdesktop to access windows apps – best of both worlds

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