TuxRunner

Wowie wow wow! I just tried my free copy of Codeweaver’s Crossover for Linux today for the first time, and I LOVE IT!

“What is this?” you say.  It’s none other than another way for you to play with a Microsoft ball, on a Linux field.  I’m talking about running Windows applications right inside Linux, with no VM.  This is Wine on steroids. (continue reading…)

I’ve done it the other way around many times. Get a Linux box to act like a Windows box using software like Samba, Wine, etc. But now I’ve been tasked at work with a project which puts me in the position of having to get LPR/LPD printing and SSH/SFTP working on a Windows box. Unix printing is at least somewhat built-in to Windows 2003 Server. You need to install it though, it’s an add-on. Once installed Windows should start listening on TCP 515 and you should be able to share out printers as LPD printers. But getting a SSH server which can also do SFTP or SCP installed isn’t quite as easy (well, provided you don’t invest in a commercial package and want to do this free with open-source software). My first attempt with to install a copy of Cygwin and get OpenSSH running. Had some issues with that and it was a little more trouble than I wanted…so I found a slimmed down version of OpenSSH for Windows that contained just enough of Cygwin to make it work. I’ve managed to get it working fully and I can use it just like any Linux box with SSHD on it, but for some reason the vendor I’m working with can’t connect…although they’re using a mainframe based SSH/SFTP application. I have no troubles with any command-line or GUI apps I use to connect but this mainframe app is just not cooperating at all. I knew I should’ve thrown this at our Unix team to work on. Ahh, well. It’s all good clean fun. Blurring the lines between the OSes. Woohoo!