Perl running on Linux and NT????

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:

> We use the linux server as our gateway for the network and only have a
> dial up PPP connection which gives us a dynamic IP address. We need to
> let the client access to their machine, to do some data entry. If I
> mount the NT box as part of the linux system, the perl written on the NT
> box tries to use the perl on the linux machine.

You don't make it entirely clear what you're doing, but it sounds like
they are logging in to the linux box, and accessing their files from the
Linux box via NT shares mounted on the Linux box.

If that's the case, when they run perl, it will always and can only be the
Linux version of perl, since the linux box is the machine they are on.  If
they need to run the NT version, they need to either run it while logged
into the NT machine at the console, or install some multi-user NT software
like Citrix.  NT as shipped has no facility for allowing remote login
(other than for network authentication only), so there is no way to run
executables on the NT machine from the Linux machine.


Derek D. Martin   |  UNIX System Administrator
derek at netria.com  |  dmartin at lancity.com

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