List of Sidebars

Chapter 1: Installation and Getting Around

Yikes, I Don't Have That Much Hardware

The Benefits of Subdomain Delegation

Automatically Installing the Service Packs with the OS

When Good Windows Goes Bad

Other Linux Distributions

Understanding Linux Hard Drive Devices and Partitions

About SELinux

If You Have Linux Installation Problems

Linux, Open Source, the GPL, and Other Open Source Licenses

The Linux Desktop: GNOME and KDE

About RPMs

Terminals and Shells

Installation of Windows XP

Chapter 2: Linux Authentication Services

Can You Harden NIS?

About skel and umask

Troubleshooting pGina

About Public-Key Encryption

About chmod and chown

Other Graphical Interfaces to OpenLDAP

.tar.gz, gzip, gunzip, and tar

Web-Based Interfaces to Configure Samba: SWAT and Webmin

Chapter 3: Authenticating Linux Clients to Active Directory

How Winbind Fakes Linux User IDs (and How It Can Hurt)

Really? Active Directory As a NIS Server?

About Kerberos Authentication

Chapter 4: File Sharing between Windows and Linux

Alternative SMB Browsers and Mounters

Mounting Shares at Logon Time, or Why We Don't Show Linux Home Directories Mounted on a Windows Server Using SMB

Why Perl

Scheduling Tasks with cron

Nitrobit: Group Policy for Samba Where There Is No Active Directory

Setting ACLs from the Linux Command Line

Other NFS Options via Webmin

Kerberos Wrap-up

Chapter 5: Printer Sharing between Windows and Linux

Printing to Network Print Servers

Chapter 6: Practical Windows Exchange and Linux Postfix E-mail Integration

Why We Chose Postfix

Why We Didn't Use Webmin for MailScanner

Chapter 7: Application and Desktop Compatibility

All about the X Window System

Installing Other Linux Distributions on VMware

Other Virtual Machine Technologies for Linux

Genuine Microsoft Software Program May Thwart Efforts of WINE, CrossOver Office, Win4Lin and Others

How We Resolved StarOffice 8 Beta Installer Problems

Chapter 8: Remote, Terminal, and Assisted Computing for Windows and Linux

RDP Versus VNC: Which Is Better?

About the Citrix ICA Client for Linux

VNC Distributions for Windows and Other Platforms

Why VNC Instead of an X Server?

Turning Windows Workstations into Thin Clients of a Linux Host

Fedora Remote Desktop and Remote Computing on the Same Host

Chapter 9: Windows and Linux Network Interoperability

If You're Using an Older DNS

Alternatives to PPTP

PPTP: Security Issues and Best Practices

Old and Crusty Protocols that You Shouldn't Use

Chapter 10: Web Interoperability

Client and Server Choices and Assumptions for Windows and Linux

.NET, Mono, and Intellectual Property Rights

MainSoft's Visual MainWin: Leveraging and Giving Back to Mono

Why Some .NET Web Applications Have Trouble Running under Mono

Apache::ASP: ASP-style programming in Perl on Apache without Mono