Introduction

Today's enterprise often has a computing environment that consists of many machines running a mix of Windows and legacy operating systems. While these machines may be able to communicate with each other through network connections, it is not always easy to access all the applications and data that exist on this multitude of machines, especially when you need to access a machine running a legacy operating system from one running Windows.

Fortunately, there are tools that can make this easier. One such set of tools is the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite. Based on industry standards, the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite lets you accomplish a variety of tasks from a single machine anywhere in your network. These tasks include:

• Administering remote servers and workstations
• Deploying applications throughout the enterprise
• Distributing data to remote file stores
• Accessing remote source trees
• Performing distributed builds and automated testing

This document guides you the basic concepts and techniques associated with connectivity, through how to use and configure the tools in the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite to examples of how you can use those tools in combination with other MKS Toolkit and Windows utilities to perform the tasks listed above.

"Connectivity Basics" provides an overview of some of the basic concepts involved with connectivity, describes the contents of the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite, and discusses how to choose the right utility to use in various circumstances.

"Remote Utilities" discusses the various remote utilities and how to use them.

"Secure Utilities" covers the various secure utilities and how to use them.

"The Telnet Server" describes the MKS Toolkit telnetd service and how to use standard telnet utilities to connect to it.

"The X Terminal Emulator" describes how you can use the xterm utility to communicate with graphical X Windows applications on remote machines.

"Tasks" describes the sample network used throughout this document, advises you on how to choose the right connectivity tool for the job and provides examples of using the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite to perform common enterprise connectivity tasks.

"Configuring the Connectivity Suite" provides instructions on configuring the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite.