Windows Client Apps & Daemons for use with Unix

Stefan Furtmayr (sf@paf.net)

Feel free to send me your comments about these programs or some additions.
I tried to avoid programs which are not even free for personal use.

Client Apps

Floppy disks:

Reading EXT2:

Text Editors: which can correctly open text files in Unix format
Other important features: Search/Replace, clickable & highlighted URLs, (Color and Unicode)

Postscript Viewer:

FTP Clients:

Secure File Transfer:

Time Synchronization:

Unix Daemons for Windows

Also have a look at the "Diskless Windows Cookbook " in the LTSP Contrib Area.

Background:
From this list I have only used the W2K-TFTP once for a customer with the 3Com MBA Utility Disk, while it can be used as well with Etherboot tagged images for other NIC brands.
The solution used a netbooted DOS with MS Client 3.0 to easily restore Windows disk images with Symantec Ghost (see appdeploy.com for similar tools).
Sure there are several possibilities to do this with Linux but for cloning NT4/W2K the NTFS support is rather experimental and automatically changing the SID and computer name is another issue.

In general installing applications with FireDaemon (instead of srvany in the Windows NT/2000 Resource Kit which is not freely available) may work also.
At least srvany for NT is available here but without the installer instsrv.exe so services can only be installed via Regedit (see Q137890).
Note that some of the ResKit tools are available for free download: W2K / NT

Secure Shell:

TFTP Servers:

In Autumn 2000 i tested some different TFTP servers and found out that most of them do not install/run as a service, especially under W2K.

Untested:

found on http://www.nonags.com/nonags/servd32.html
- http://www.klever.net/kin/pumpkin.html
- http://membres.tripod.fr/phjounin//P_tftpd32.htm

Syslog Servers:

NFS Servers: