File README in /opt/tops/tops/usr/extra/wn7tools
August 2013

Files in this directory are being used on a machine running Windows.  

They run successfully under Windows 7 Ultimate and Excel 2010, and are
provided as-is for examples only. 

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Bat files F_diego_mount.bat and G_plunger_mount.bat run on a Windows 
machine that has NFS Client capability.  The software needed for NFS
requires Windows 7 Ultimate.

Windows 7 Professional is a version lower than Ultimate, and will not
work for NFS.

File F_diego_mount.bat is a batch file that runs in Windows and mounts
the directory /nfs/solano on Linux machine diego to drive F on Windows
machine solano.  Once this mount is made, the Windows and Linux machines
can share files.

File G_plunger_mount.bat similarly mounts directory /nfs/solano on a 
second Linux machine plunger to drive G on Windows machine solano.

Shared files reside on the Linux machines (because they are the servers
for NFS), and as an NFS client the Windows machine is writing to and 
reading from the disks on the Linux machines.

There are security issues with NFS.  See References.  

References for NFS: 
   In Linux, see man mount, man nfs and man exports.
   In Windows, see menu in "Network File System->Client for NFS 
      Properties."
   On the Internet:
   Security issues with NFS:
      http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/security.html
      http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/linux/\
             nfs-security-trusted-untrusted-environments_1956
   Securing NFS:
      http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/nfs-and-nis-security
      http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-nfs-security.html

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File Excel_macros.txt contains macros to automatically write a spread-
sheet to a file at a designated time interval.

These macros are being run in Excel 2010 in Windows 7 Ultimate.  

For upload to CVS this file has been edited in vi on a Linux machine 
to improve comments, but the file has not been rerun in Windows/Excel.
Sorry for any mistakes.

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