The problem, if I'm reading this correctly, is that you can't make system calls on NT from Linux.
Services can be added to NT to make it accessible from Linux, to varying degrees, such as SAMBA, SNMP, and WBEM.
andreychek has an excellent suggestion for other services. What they all have in common is providing a proxy to the Linux machine to manage an NT machine.

The most flexible (and probably has the greatest potential of danger) seems to be web-based management. Have an NT machine serve cgi scripts to manage other NT systems. No one can write enough here to talk about all of the security issues in implementing. No one knows enough and besides, who would want to read it here anyway?

In the spirit of TMTOWTDI, use CGI.pm to create your web-based administration on an NT machine, use Win32::AdminMisc, and the slew of modules available to provide remote administration of win32 machines. This will allow you to perform enterprise-level monitoring.

If you are only concerned with access to individual boxes, rsh (as John M. Dlugosz stated earlier), telnet, ssh, and vnc can be used to bridge NT and Linux.

In reply to Re: Network Programming between Linux/NT by joefission
in thread Network Programming between Linux/NT by Tuna

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