Known Limitations and Workarounds for the Microsoft Windows Platform

• The installation of Services For UNIX (SFU) 3.5 requires a good administrative understanding of the Windows platform and its integration into a UNIX environment. For an overview of SFU, see Appendix A, Microsoft Services For UNIX, in Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 Installation Guide. You can find additional technical information and documentation about SFU on the Microsoft web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp.

  Username mapping, NFS mounts, and hostname resolving in SFU require special attention to successfully install the Grid Engine execution daemon, submit host functionality, and integration of Windows hosts into a N1 Grid Engine cluster.

• You cannot install a Windows execution host remotely with the auto installation procedure. You can use the auto installation procedure through the inst_sge -noremote command to install locally.

• You cannot submit a job from a Windows submit host as the Windows “local Administrator” to a Unix or Linux execution host. However, you can submit a job as local Administrator from Windows to Windows, and you can submit as user root from Unix or Linux to Windows, Unix, or Linux execution hosts.