Using Windows and Linux Servers
In today's environments, Linux and Windows servers are commonly used together, and therefore, the servers themselves must be capable of communicating. That said, most of that communication is likely to take place with industry standard protocols such as FTP and HTTP, so no additional client software is necessary to communicate between servers under these conditions.
Microsoft provides some degree of integration for UNIX systems via a special add-on pack called Windows Services for UNIX. This add-on pack provides compatibility with the UNIX NFS and a variety of UNIX utilities. The add-on pack can also be used on Linux servers. However, Microsoft states clearly that Windows Services for UNIX has only been tested on a limited number of versions of UNIX and only one version of LinuxRed Hat 8.