A well-informed System Administrator knows the strengths and weaknesses of various operating systems and computing environments. At first glance, it appears that the UNIX-based operating systems don't have much in common with Windows NT. Commercial and freeware products exist to make the task of integration possible. The end result is an impressive blend of operating systems services that are platform-independent. The parts of this assignment will introduce you to some of the more common integration methods and let you also work on creating clusters of machines.
Install the demo version of XWin32 on your Windows NT machine. You can find the demo at www.starnet.com. The demo version will let you run the X server for 2 hour sessions before it shuts down.
Connect to your Solaris and Linux boxes using XWin32 and bring up Xwindows applications on your NT machine.
Install Samba 2.0.4 (or higher) on your Linux & Solaris machines. Once done, attempt to set up Samba on both UNIX machines so they authenticate off of your NT server's domain. You should be able to connect your UNIX home directory off of either UNIX machine so that they appear as an NT network mounted share.
Samba can be found at samba.anu.edu.au/samba.
Set up your Solaris machine as a NIS (Yellow Page) server. Use your NT domain name as your NIS domain name (unless your NT domain name doesn't follow the naming rules for NIS).
Set up your Linux machine as a NIS client, using your Solaris-based NIS server. When you are done, you should be able to log into either of the two UNIX machines using the password file on the Sun as the primary password file.