Solaris PC NetLink Software
Solaris PC NetLink 2.0 Download InformationPlease read the information below, as well as the Readme File, before downloading. DescriptionSolaris PC NetLink 2.0 software enables Sun Enterprise servers running the Solaris Operating Environment to function as primary domain controllers, backup domain controllers, and member servers in a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 network.A Sun Enterprise server running Solaris PC NetLink 2.0 software provides native Windows NT 4.0 file, print, directory, and authentication services to Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0 client PCs New Features in 2.0: Multiple Instances Solaris PC NetLink 2.0 software supports more than one instance (set of PC NetLink daemons) of PC NetLink on a single Solaris system. Each instance will appear to an NT client as a separate NT server. This feature will help enable all nodes in an HA cluster to run an instance of PCNL. This new capability is designed to ease the consolidation of many NT servers onto a single Solaris server, since the configuration of each NT server can be copied to an instance of PCNL on a Solaris server. Password Synchronization This feature supports bidirectional password synchronization between NT's user account database (SAM) and the NIS Solaris account database. The key components of this feature are a Solaris PAM, an NT "password filter", and a password daemon. ACL Scalability Improvement In Solaris PC NetLink 2.0 software, NT ACLs for files and directories will be stored in the Solaris file systems instead of the ACL database. This design upgrade has been made to eliminate the ACL database bottleneck in large installations. Dynamically Shared Solaris Home Directories This feature dynamically shares the Unix home directory of the logged in NT user, provided that this NT account is mapped to a Unix user account. The dynamic share will be reported as the name of the NT user account as Samba does today. This feature helps relieve the NT administrator from the burden of explicitly sharing each Unix user's home directory. Solaris Group ID Semantics This feature provides the option of storing the DOS file attributes somewhere other than the file's groupid field. This allows Solaris users to use normal Unix group semantics for controlling access to files and directories. LDAP Directory Synchronization This consists of utilities that can be used to transfer user account data between the NT SAM and an LDAP directory server. NetBIOS DNS Extension NetBIOS is extended to query the Solaris name services to perform name lookups. PC NetLink Manager The PCNL Manager is extended to support the 2.0 features. In most cases, such as Dynamically Shared home Directories, and Solaris Group ID Semantics, the PC NetLink Manager simply offers a means of enabling or disabling the feature. Process Monitors The process monitors now monitor the PC NetLink daemons which provide
the various PC NetLink/NT services.
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