whats the purpose of having a shell account. what if you just got 2 hd's one with unix and one with windows. can someone explain a shell account to me.
A shell account allows you to login to a remote system and execute commands. If you would like to get a shell account download a ssh client such as Putty for Windows or use ssh that comes with Linux and ssh to freeshell.org. You can create a free shell account there and see what a shell account really is by example.