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UnixWare 7 facilities that provide services to end-users include the Basic Networking Utilities (BNU) and the Remote Execution facility (REXEC). BNU provides basic network communication (such as queued remote execution and file transfer capabilities), and REXEC is an interactive remote execution facility. Whereas many network packages provide remote execution capabilities, BNU and REXEC provide file transfer and remote execution independent of the transport provider. Both BNU and REXEC take advantage of the features of the Networking Applications Architecture (NAA) described previously.
In addition to BNU and REXEC, there is a distributed file system package, the Network File System (NFS). NFS provides access to files and directories across a network of machines running different operating systems. In addition, TCP/IP includes a number of application-level services in its protocol suite.
BNU and REXEC are described in this topic and discussed in more detail in ``Administering BNU'' and ``Administering REXEC''. Distributed file systems are described in ``Overview of DFS'' and ``Overview of NFS''.
The following section leads you step-by-step through administration of BNU and REXEC.