.au "Windows interoperation" FIRST
.sp 5
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Steve Simon


.ce 2
Plan9 in a Windows enviroment,
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\fImaking friends with uncle Bill.\fB
.bp
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Services


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File access

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Native tools

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Kerberos

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DNS

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File formats

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PIM - Email, mettings, users info

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Exporting 9p
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File access


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u9fs & cygwin

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ncpfs - Netware client - no directory services

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cvsfs - cvs repository as a dump filesystem

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cifs - Windows neighbourhood
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still single threaded
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MAC - still fails
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RAP - limitations
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RCP - needed - COM 
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passwd change - not yet
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Win 95, 98, NT, 2k, XP, OSX, Samba, (Netapp broken)
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DFS - will not cross servers, ``bodge''
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Command line


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ssh - good, but problems

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listen1 and rxd - quick bodge, but fewer problebs

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u9cpu - the answer
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cd on connect
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/dev/cpunote - DEL
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NTservice - map network drives
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/dev/wdir - for the plumber
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new a ``9win'' 9p auth protocol
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export environment

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Kerberos


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libder.a

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GSSAPI

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SPNGO

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gives us... very little,
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NTLMv2 will do for most
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File formats


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xls2txt - works

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doc2txt - needs more work - antiword does it anyway

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ppt2fs - handy but diminishing returns

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 .LNK shortcuts - broken implementation by MS
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PIM (i.e. Exchange)


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SMTP gives us much

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WebDAV - full meeting coordination

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VCARD - formatted business card

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ICAL - formatted calendar, emailed anyway

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ldap - user info - location, telephone, email etc.
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DNS


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SRV records - location of primary dfs server

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DNS inform (RFC2136) protocol on dhcp lease

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ndb/nbns - NetBios name server query 

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ndb/nbas - NetBios adapter service 
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Databases


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mysql client - started

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Inferno ODBC styx implementation

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import windows /mnt/odbc ?
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Native tools


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ps & kill - by windows thread

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prio - shared "compile" machines - Leonardo

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who - all attached servers

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whois - ldap client

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ls -l - file owner/group

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9win


Exporting 9p

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Russ's windows p9p alpha - different p9p and win32 namespaces

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Reparse points / Junctions - global namespace

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9p client - true private namespaces?

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UMFD

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IFS

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Rangboom™... ?

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native executables