[ale] how to make a windows sysadmin functional on Unix

[Dow Hurst]

The SGI courses on sysadmin and networking helped me alot for IRIX but 
he needs alot of Unix book time and a test machine before he should 
attempt to work on your production machines.  If he makes the mistakes 
I've made then your company would not be happy.  Also, his inclination 
will be to push for MS solutions since that is what he knows.  You'll 
need to take the president out to lunch and fill him in on what the guy 
needs. ;-)   Or, you might come in one morning and find MS Unix services 
on new Win2003 servers for your backend and a XP Professional 
workstation on your desk with Visual Basic and MS based Java development 
software. =-O

Wouldn't that be a special morning when the coffee just wasn't quite so 
tasty? :-D

Just kidding around here,
Dow

PS.  And an Exchange server with no viral checking for the mail 
services.  This is after selling the boss on Outlook.

Steve Tynor wrote:

>All,
>
>I've just started a new gig in a mixed Windows / Linux / Solaris
>development shop.  Since the product is implemented in Java, many
>developers work on Windows even though the serious testing and most
>deploys happen on Solaris.  It's a relatively small company, and they've
>just hired their first sysadmin (it was an every man for himself shop
>prior to his hire).
>
>Problem is, he's a Windoze kinda guy.  He can barely login to a unix
>box. I'm trying to show him the ropes, but really don't have the time to
>hold his hand for long. (I'm a developer, not a sysadmin, though I
>sometimes play one on TV).  
>
>I'm looking for advice for some reading material, websites, etc. that
>you would recommend that he can use to bootstrap himself.  "A Unix for
>Dummies^H^H^H^H^HWindows Admin" sort of thing.  My problem is that I
>came to Unix first, Windows second, so I can't really identify with the
>sorts of problems he's having getting his brain around Unix. (just as he
>he can't understand why I have such a hard time dealing with Windows :-))
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>Steve
>tynor at iintiip.com
>
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