Links to More Windows/Linux Stuff

Linux Printing in a Microsoft World (and vice-versa)

Redmond Magazine's Emmett Dulaney steps you through granting access to Windows printers for Linux clients as well as the other way 'round in this online article.

Linux for ISV's

This link was compiled by a WinLin reader (Dan Kegel), discussing the use of Wine to help Windows ISV's ship their applications for Linux. Read more about it here.

eWeek's "Windows vs. Linux" page

Obviously, here at WinLinAnswers.com, we're more interested in harmony.. but this page of articles is interesting nonetheless. 

"MIcrosoft lab works overtime"

This story in eWeek magazine demonstrates how Microsoft's Linux Lab got various kinds of hardware to work with various Linux distributions. Very interesting reading, especially the chart entitled "Doesn't Linux run on older hardware?" Click here for the PDF of the whole eWeek week, but then locate the article in News | Microsoft Lab Works Overtime.

A List of all Linux Services

For me (Jeremy), this list was super  helpful. It gives the name of all Linux services and what they do, and if you need it "on" or not. Check it out here.

Open Source in the Windows Enterprise

A two part article from TechTarget. Part 1 is here.  I'll post part 2 when it's available.

Beyond Samba - Integrating Windows Authentication into a wireless VPN solution

This document is meant to show how to take Windows and Linux and co-integrate their wireless capabilities. It's found here as a PDF.

How to make NTFS drives Writable within Linux

An interesting run down of how to perform this bit of magic. 

Samba PDC and Kolab with OpenLDAP integraion

From the HOWTO found here

Users unfamiliar with Kolab can think of it as a Free Software Groupware Solution with features similar to Exchange.

If you have a running Samba server, with its users, passwords and groups stored in the OpenLDAP database, you could add more features to it by integrating Kolab Groupware Solution with your setup - of course, using the same credentials for both Samba and Kolab.

The article will be also useful if you want to use an existing OpenLDAP server for Kolab, rather than use the one shipped with Kolab.

Linux Living in a Windows World

Redhat 2005 Conference Slides 

Here, you'll find a bunch of helpful (free) information on how do do lots of great stuff. Thanks RedHat !

Centeris Joins Linux-Windows INterop Fray

Another company launched the week of 10/24/05 with the intention of getting customers with mixed Microsoft-Linux environments to stop pulling their hair out. Centeris is offering tools for managing and configuring Linux systems from the Microsoft Management Console. Linux-Windows integration looks to be an area ripe for partners to pick up services work, as competitors including Quest have made it clear they're looking for more partners to help install their wares. http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=6999. Another article about Centeris from InfoWorld can be found here.

CrossOver Office bridges the Linux-Windows divide

Read this InfoWorld article about CrossOver Office. The new version lets admins distribute, manage, and run Windows software on Linux desktops

School nixes malware with open source

This is an interesting opportunity for open-source. Sounds like a lot of work to make it all happen, but very interesting nonetheless. Read about it here.

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