What is it? DJGPP is a collection of UNIX-like tools for DOS/Windows that has been ported from the GNU project. For a better understanding of what we mean by UNIX-like, see gnu.org. We’ve found DJGPP indespensible for tweaking files for automated installs from the command prompt. With this version you can run the utilities from […]

Windows users are at a disadvantage in the open source environment becase they are not used to compiling programs. The idea of recompiling the NT kernel just simply doesn’t cross the mind of a typical MCSE. Programs are usually shipped precompiled. In the *nix world it is routine to download the source code for a […]

One thing we do quite often here at netadmintools.com is install and reinstall NT Server and friends over and over again. This article describes how to setup, configure, backup to tape, and restore an NT Server installation on Vmware. We installed Vmware using the simple directions that came with the distribution, and then ran a […]

We loaded up a copy of Windows XP Professional today, and the first thing we needed to do was administer our Linux boxes. There are a lot of stand alone tools out there. For SSH, PuTTY works well. What is even better, though, is to use Cygwin. The Cygwin collection of utilities is very complete. […]

We have written about Cygwin in past articles. This article will focus on getting Xterm to run on Windows. Xterm emulation works. Resize during a session? No problem. Unix style cut and pastes? Sure. The catch is you have to run X on your Windows box… heh, heh. First, install Cygwin, then copy the binaries […]

One extremely cool programming project that you should check out is pGina. pGina replaces the authentication module on Windows 2000 and XP clients so that they can authenticate via SSL with an LDAP server. Further, pGina uses authentication plugins, so over time other methods can be used as interest determines them. The author was published […]