Siemens V4.0 manual Preface

1 Preface

Advanced Server for UNIX can be used to integrate personal computers, which are operated under MS-DOS®(also running MS Windows or MS Windows for Workgroups), MS®OS/2 or OS/2®(referred to as OS/2 in this manual), Windows 95/98 and MS Windows NT®operating systems, in local networks (LAN, Local Area Network and WAN, Wide Area Network). Advanced Server for UNIX allows the operation of various systems in a network.

Advanced Server for UNIX V4.0 (Advanced Server for UNIX in this manual) provides users with server functions for the local network. It extends UNIX®to a network operating system. Advanced Server for UNIX corresponds to Windows NT Server. The network server is based on systems with the operating system UNIX. Cooperation with Microsoft®has ensured that Advanced Server for UNIX is compatible with Windows NT Server.

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The operating system is generally referred to as UNIX in this manual. This term is used generically to include all UNIX operating systems on which Advanced Server for UNIX is installed, for example Reliant UNIX.

Advanced Server for UNIX is also used in abbreviated form as AS/X, as well as sometimes as AS/U or Advanced Server. All of these terms are synonymous for the same product.

The description of the entire Advanced Server for UNIX product covers several manuals. The “Concepts and Planning” manual provides information on the structure and function- ality of Advanced Server for UNIX and describes, among other things, the differences in comparison to LAN Manager/X.

This manual provides information on the enhancements that are implemented in Advanced Server for UNIX; it supplements the information in the manual entitled “Concepts and Planning”. The installation and configuration of Advanced Server for UNIX on the UNIX system are also described in that manual.

The “API Reference” manual contains information on the API (Application Programming Interface) with regard to syntax and functions. It is supplemented by online documentation which is supplied with the package for the manual pages.

The “SNMP Service” manual contains information on the installation and configuration of an extension for the SNMP agent (Simple Network Management Protocol), which among other things allows network events to be determined centrally. This manual is part of the LAN Manager/X V2.2 series of manuals.

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