How to Find Out More

Here are some useful books, journal articles, and online locations that cover the topic of Windows and UNIX working together.

Books on Using Windows and UNIX Together

Here are some useful books to help Windows users become proficient in the UNIX environment quickly, through understanding shells and tools, simple system administration for multiuser systems, and text processing utilities. These books are also helpful for UNIX users wishing to understand the Windows environment better. Although some are written for Windows NT, since the NT philosophy has migrated to newer operating systems such as Windows 2000 and XP, a lot of the information is still relevant.

• Burnett, Steve, David Gunter, and Lola Gunter. Windows2000 & UNIX Integration Guide. Berkeley, CA: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2000.

• Harvel, Lonnie, et al. UNIX and Windows 2000 Handbook: Planning, Integration, and Administration. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 2000.

• Henriksen, Gene. Windows NT and UNIX Integration. New York: Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1998.

• Williams, G. Robert, and Ellen Beck Gardner. Windows NT & UNIX: Administration, Coexistence, Integration, & Migration. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

The following books are both useful in understanding how the Server Message Block architecture is used in Samba to share files between Windows users and UNIX servers:

• Smith, Roderick W. The Definitive Guide to Samba-3. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2004.

• T’s, Jay, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown. Using Samba. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media Inc., 2003.

• Terpstra, John H. Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 2004.

Here are some useful books on VMware:

• Bastiaansen, Rob. Rob’s Guide to Using VMware. 2nd ed. Leusden, the Netherlands: Books4brains, 2005.

• Compton, Jason. VMware 2 for Linux. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 2000.

• Ward, Brian. The Book of VMware: The Complete Guide to VMware Workstation. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, 2002.

Journals That Cover Using Windows and UNIX Together

A number of periodicals devoted to the Windows PC environment also address the issues of Windows and UNIX working together in client/server environments. Here is a list of a few of the more popular ones:

• ComputerWorld, an IDG (International Data Group) publication

• PC Computing, a Ziff-Davis publication

• PC Magazine, a Ziff-Davis publication

• PC Week, a Ziff-Davis publication

Online Information About Using Windows and UNIX Together

The Internet is an extremely useful tool to find information about topics concerning using Windows and UNIX together. Included in the topics covered in this chapter are references to some helpful sites to find out more about specific topics, such as emulators, toolkits to run Windows commands on UNIX and vice versa, sharing files and printers, and networking Windows and UNIX machines together.

If you want more information on comparisons between UNIX and DOS commands, see the page at http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/unix _for_dos_users.html.