Can Windows and Linux co-exist?

[Sam Sharpe]

On 16 May 2010 13:59, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>
> I've been trying for some time to set up
> a home LAN based on a Linux (CentOS) server,
> with both Linux and Windows clients.
>
> It seems to me that this is the best hope
> for the future growth of Linux,
> and that the fanatical rejection of all things Windows
> is in fact counter-productive.
>
> As I see it, more and more applications are web-based,
> and the aim should be to enable them to be accessed
> from Linux or Windows machines.
>
> Unfortunately neither of the contestants
> seem to want to make this easier.
>
> I'm thinking specifically (at the moment)
> of MySQL, openVPN and openLDAP.
> Is there anywhere an account of how to set up
> a Windows client with a Linux server
> for these applications?
>
> For example, I access MySQL on my server
> through http://<myserver>/phpMyAdmin
> and LDAP through http://<myserver>/phpLDAPadmin .
>
> But I haven't found a clear account
> of how to access these applications from a Windows client.

Do those web addresses not work from a Windows client?

Try these links:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/windows-installation.html <-
MySQL is fully Supported on Windows
http://openvpn.se/ <- Windows GUI for OpenVPN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LDAP_software <- LDAP protocol is
cross-platform

--
Sam