New Features and Services with Advanced Server/9000

Support for NT domains. Administrative groupings of servers and clients, called "domains", make it easier to manage large or diverse networks. Trusted domains allow large configurations with many domains to be managed effectively.

NT Accounts database. Advanced Server/9000 maintains a database of users, groups, and access permissions that is separate from the HP-UX user database. This allows full NT user-level security, including user groups, logon validation, and a domain-wide replicated accounts database.

NT Access control lists. Access permissions can be defined per user for each shared resource. Provides additional flexibility and greater precision when controlling many resources across many users with different access requirements.

Remote Administration from the latest Microsoft workstation clients. Advanced Server/9000 provides a complete set of tools that enable a Windows NT or Windows 95 client to administer a remote Advanced Server/9000 server.

File Replication Service. File replication allows an identical, up-to-date set of directories and files to be maintained on selected servers.

Alert Service. Messages can be arranged to be sent to selected users upon detection of defined server error conditions or security violations.

Operator privileges. Users can be assigned permission to perform certain administrator tasks such as printer queue or user accounts management without allowing full administrator capabilities.

Expanded auditing. A variety of server activities including network logons, file access, and security changes can be logged into a audit file.

Logon scripts. Logon scripts can be specified to run when a user logs on to the network. Scripts can be tailored for the requirements of each user.

Home directories. Each user can be assigned a directory on the server for file storage.

Restricted logon hours. Administrators can control the days and times a user can access server resources.

Password management facilities. Administrators can specify password min/max length, time limits, and re-use parameters when tailoring password policies.

Password encryption. User passwords are scrambled for secure passage over the network.

Valid workstations. Users can be restricted to certain workstations when logging on to the network.

Client HP-UX utilities. A set of client programs to allow DOS-based users to list, rename, and change access permissions of HP-UX files and subdirectories that are not directly accessible to clients are provided. These utilities are not supported from NT workstations.