NETWORKING ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE

By MICHAEL MARTINEZ

ABOUT THIS BOOK HOW TO USE THIS BOOK HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED BOOK I: NETWORKING BASICS BOOK II: BUILDING A NETWORK BOOK III: NETWORK ADMINISTRATION AND SECURITY BOOK IV: NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING AND DISASTER PLANNING BOOK V: TCP/IP AND THE INTERNET BOOK VI: HOME NETWORKING BOOK VII: WIRELESS NETWORKING BOOK VIII: WINDOWS SERVER 2003 REFERENCE BOOK IX: LINUX NETWORKING REFERENCE ICONS USED IN THIS BOOK WHERE TO GO FROM HERE WHAT IS A NETWORK? NETWORK BUILDING BLOCKS WHY BOTHER? OF CLIENTS AND SERVERS DEDICATED SERVERS AND PEERS NETWORKS BIG AND SMALL NETWORK TOPOLOGY BUS TOPOLOGY STAR TOPOLOGY EXPANDING STARS RING TOPOLOGY MESH TOPOLOGY UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOLS UNDERSTANDING STANDARDS THE SEVEN LAYERS OF THE OSI REFERENCE MODEL THE PHYSICAL LAYER THE DATA LINK LAYER HOW CSMA/CD WORKS THE NETWORK LAYER LOGICAL ADDRESSING ROUTING THE TRANSPORT LAYER THE SESSION LAYER THE PRESENTATION LAYER THE APPLICATION LAYER FOLLOWING A PACKET THROUGH THE LAYERS THE ETHERNET PROTOCOL STANDARD ETHERNET FAST ETHERNET GIGABIT ETHERNET THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITE TCP UDP THE IPX/SPX PROTOCOL SUITE OTHER PROTOCOLS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT SERVERS WHAT’S IMPORTANT IN A SERVER COMPONENTS OF A SERVER COMPUTER SERVER FORM FACTORS NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS NETWORK CABLE COAXIAL CABLE TWISTED-PAIR CABLE HUBS AND SWITCHES REPEATERS BRIDGES ROUTERS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE NETWORK PRINTERS NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM FEATURES NETWORK SUPPORT FILE SHARING SERVICES MULTITASKING DIRECTORY SERVICES SECURITY SERVICES MICROSOFT’S SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS WINDOWS NT SERVER 4 WINDOWS 2000 SERVER WINDOWS SERVER 2003 NOVELL NETWARE NETWARE VERSIONS NETWARE 6 5 OTHER SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS LINUX APPLE MAC OS/X SERVER PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING WITH WINDOWS ADVANTAGES OF PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS DRAWBACKS OF PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS WINDOWS XP OLDER WINDOWS VERSIONS MAKING A NETWORK PLAN BEING PURPOSEFUL TAKING STOCK WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW PROGRAMS THAT GATHER INFORMATION FOR YOU TO DEDICATE OR NOT TO DEDICATE: THAT IS THE QUESTION TYPES OF SERVERS FILE SERVERS PRINT SERVERS WEB SERVERS MAIL SERVERS DATABASE SERVERS CHOOSING A SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM PLANNING THE INFRASTRUCTURE DRAWING DIAGRAMS SAMPLE NETWORK PLANS BUILDING A SMALL NETWORK: CALIFORNIA SPORT SURFACE, INC CONNECTING TWO NETWORKS: CREATIVE COURSE DEVELOPMENT, INC IMPROVING NETWORK PERFORMANCE: DCH ACCOUNTING INSTALLING A NETWORK INTERFACE CARD INSTALLING TWISTED-PAIR CABLE CABLE CATEGORIES WHAT’S WITH THE PAIRS? TO SHIELD OR NOT TO SHIELD WHEN TO USE PLENUM CABLE SOMETIMES SOLID, SOMETIMES STRANDED INSTALLATION GUIDELINES GETTING THE TOOLS THAT YOU NEED PINOUTS FOR TWISTED-PAIR CABLES ATTACHING RJ-45 CONNECTORS CROSSOVER CABLES WALL JACKS AND PATCH PANELS INSTALLING COAXIAL CABLE ATTACHING A BNC CONNECTOR TO COAXIAL CABLE INSTALLING HUBS AND SWITCHES DAISY-CHAINING HUBS OR SWITCHES THE MANY WAYS TO INSTALL A NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM FULL INSTALL VERSUS UPGRADE INSTALLING OVER THE NETWORK AUTOMATED AND REMOTE INSTALLATIONS GATHERING YOUR STUFF A CAPABLE SERVER COMPUTER THE SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM OTHER SOFTWARE A WORKING INTERNET CONNECTION A GOOD BOOK MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS FINAL PREPARATIONS INSTALLING A NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM PHASE 1: COLLECTING INFORMATION PHASE 2: DYNAMIC UPDATE PHASE 3: PREPARING INSTALLATION PHASE 4: INSTALLING WINDOWS PHASE 5: FINALIZING INSTALLATION LIFE AFTER SETUP LOGGING ON ACTIVATING WINDOWS SERVICE PACKS TESTING THE INSTALLATION CONFIGURING SERVER ROLES CONFIGURING NETWORK CONNECTIONS WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS 2000 WINDOWS 9X CONFIGURING CLIENT COMPUTER IDENTIFICATION CONFIGURING NETWORK DOMAIN LOGON CONFIGURING NETWORK PRINTERS ADDING A NETWORK PRINTER ACCESSING A NETWORK PRINTER USING A WEB INTERFACE CONFIGURING INTERNET ACCESS CONFIGURING CLIENTS FOR DHCP DISABLING DIALUP CONNECTIONS USING INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING MAPPING NETWORK DRIVES IS THE COMPUTER CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK? IS THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION WORKING? CAN THE COMPUTERS PING EACH OTHER? CAN YOU LOG ON? ARE NETWORK DRIVES MAPPED CORRECTLY? DO NETWORK PRINTERS WORK? FIGURING OUT WHAT NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS DO CHOOSING THE PART-TIME ADMINISTRATOR COMPLETING ROUTINE CHORES MANAGING NETWORK USERS PATCHING THINGS UP DISCOVERING SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS BUILDING A LIBRARY CERTIFICATION COMPTIA MICROSOFT NOVELL CISCO GURUS NEED GURUS, TOO HELPFUL BLUFFS AND EXCUSES DO YOU NEED SECURITY? TWO APPROACHES TO SECURITY PHYSICAL SECURITY: LOCKING YOUR DOORS SECURING USER ACCOUNTS OBFUSCATING YOUR USERNAMES USING PASSWORDS WISELY A PASSWORD GENERATOR FOR DUMMIES SECURING THE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT HARDENING YOUR NETWORK USING A FIREWALL DISABLING UNNECESSARY SERVICES PATCHING YOUR SERVERS SECURING YOUR USERS USER ACCOUNTS BUILT-IN ACCOUNTS THE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT THE GUEST ACCOUNT SERVICE ACCOUNTS USER RIGHTS PERMISSIONS (WHO GETS WHAT) GROUP THERAPY USER PROFILES LOGON SCRIPTS FIREWALLS THE MANY TYPES OF FIREWALLS PACKET FILTERING STATEFUL PACKET INSPECTION (SPI) CIRCUIT-LEVEL GATEWAY APPLICATION GATEWAY THE BUILT-IN FIREWALL IN WINDOWS XP VIRUS PROTECTION WHAT IS A VIRUS? ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMS SAFE COMPUTING USING THE WINDOWS XP SECURITY CENTER WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD COMPUTERS HOW TO FIX DEAD COMPUTERS WAYS TO CHECK A NETWORK CONNECTION A BUNCH OF ERROR MESSAGES JUST FLEW BY! DOUBLE-CHECKING YOUR NETWORK SETTINGS USING THE WINDOWS NETWORKING TROUBLESHOOTER TIME TO EXPERIMENT WHO’S ON FIRST HOW TO RESTART A CLIENT COMPUTER RESTARTING NETWORK SERVICES HOW TO RESTART A NETWORK SERVER LOOKING AT EVENT LOGS DOCUMENTING YOUR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS WHY ADMINISTRATORS HATE PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS WHAT EXACTLY IS A BOTTLENECK? THE FIVE MOST COMMON NETWORK BOTTLENECKS THE HARDWARE INSIDE YOUR SERVERS THE SERVER’S CONFIGURATION OPTIONS SERVERS THAT DO TOO MUCH THE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE MALFUNCTIONING COMPONENTS TUNING YOUR NETWORK THE COMPULSIVE WAY MONITORING NETWORK PERFORMANCE MORE PERFORMANCE TIPS BACKING UP YOUR DATA ALL ABOUT TAPES AND TAPE DRIVES BACKUP SOFTWARE TYPES OF BACKUPS NORMAL BACKUPS COPY BACKUPS DAILY BACKUPS INCREMENTAL BACKUPS DIFFERENTIAL BACKUPS LOCAL VERSUS NETWORK BACKUPS HOW MANY SETS OF BACKUPS SHOULD YOU KEEP? A WORD ABOUT TAPE RELIABILITY ABOUT CLEANING THE HEADS BACKUP SECURITY ASSESSING DIFFERENT TYPES OF DISASTERS ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS DELIBERATE DISASTERS DISRUPTION OF SERVICES EQUIPMENT FAILURE OTHER DISASTERS ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF A DISASTER DEVELOPING A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN HOLDING A FIRE DRILL COPING WITH THE DREADED NONDELIVERY REPORT VIEWING THE MAIL SERVER’S ERROR LOGS CHECKING OUT A REMOTE MAIL SYSTEM DISCOVERING THE MAIL SERVER FOR A DOMAIN VERIFYING A MAIL SERVER VIEWING MESSAGE HEADERS HELP! I’VE BEEN BLACKLISTED! WHAT IS THE INTERNET? A LITTLE INTERNET HISTORY TCP/IP STANDARDS AND RFCS THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK NETWORK INTERFACE LAYER NETWORK LAYER TRANSPORT LAYER APPLICATION LAYER UNDERSTANDING BINARY COUNTING BY ONES DOING THE LOGIC THING WORKING WITH THE BINARY WINDOWS CALCULATOR INTRODUCING IP ADDRESSES NETWORKS AND HOSTS THE DOTTED-DECIMAL DANCE CLASSIFYING IP ADDRESSES CLASS A ADDRESSES CLASS B ADDRESSES CLASS C ADDRESSES SUBNETTING SUBNETS SUBNET MASKS NETWORK PREFIX NOTATION DEFAULT SUBNETS THE GREAT SUBNET ROUNDUP IP BLOCK PARTIES PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ADDRESSES NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION UNDERSTANDING DHCP CONFIGURATION INFORMATION PROVIDED BY DHCP DHCP SERVERS HOW DHCP ACTUALLY WORKS UNDERSTANDING SCOPES FEELING EXCLUDED? RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED HOW LONG TO LEASE? WORKING WITH A DHCP SERVER INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING A DHCP SERVER MANAGING A DHCP SERVER HOW TO CONFIGURE A WINDOWS DHCP CLIENT AUTOMATIC PRIVATE IP ADDRESSING RENEWING AND RELEASING LEASES UNDERSTANDING DNS NAMES DOMAINS AND DOMAIN NAMES FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAMES TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS GENERIC DOMAINS GEOGRAPHIC DOMAINS THE HOSTS FILE UNDERSTANDING DNS SERVERS AND ZONES ZONES PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SERVERS ROOT SERVERS CACHING UNDERSTANDING DNS QUERIES A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE ZONE FILES AND RESOURCE RECORDS SOA RECORDS NS RECORDS A RECORDS CNAME RECORDS PTR RECORDS MX RECORDS REVERSE LOOKUP ZONES WORKING WITH THE WINDOWS DNS SERVER HOW TO CONFIGURE A WINDOWS DNS CLIENT INTRODUCING FTP CONFIGURING AN FTP SERVER INSTALLING FTP CHANGING THE FTP SITE PROPERTIES ADDING CONTENT TO YOUR FTP SITE ADDING AN ADDITIONAL FTP SITE ACCESSING AN FTP SITE WITH A BROWSER USING AN FTP COMMAND-LINE CLIENT FTP COMMAND AND SUBCOMMAND REFERENCE THE FTP COMMAND ! (ESCAPE) ? (HELP) APPEND ASCII BELL BINARY BYE CLOSE DEBUG DELETE DIR DISCONNECT GET GLOB HASH HELP LCD LITERAL MDELETE MDIR MGET MKDIR MLS MPUT OPEN PROMPT PUT PWD QUIT QUOTE RECV REMOTEHELP RENAME RMDIR SEND STATUS TRACE TYPE USER VERBOSE ARP HOSTNAME IPCONFIG DISPLAYING BASIC IP CONFIGURATION DISPLAYING DETAILED CONFIGURATION INFORMATION RENEWING AN IP LEASE RELEASING AN IP LEASE FLUSHING THE LOCAL DNS CACHE NBTSTAT NETDIAG NETSTAT DISPLAYING CONNECTIONS DISPLAYING INTERFACE STATISTICS NSLOOKUP LOOKING UP AN IP ADDRESS USING NSLOOKUP SUBCOMMANDS DISPLAYING DNS RECORDS LOCATING THE MAIL SERVER FOR AN E-MAIL ADDRESS TAKING A RIDE THROUGH DNS-LAND PATHPING PING ROUTE DISPLAYING THE ROUTING TABLE MODIFYING THE ROUTING TABLE TRACERT WINIPCFG DECIDING WHY YOU NEED A NETWORK CHOOSING HOW TO NETWORK YOUR HOME PHONE LINE NETWORKS POWER LINE NETWORKS USB NETWORKS WIRELESS NETWORKS CABLED ETHERNET STRANGE THINGS TO ADD TO YOUR NETWORK A HOME NETWORK EXAMPLE SOME GENERAL TIPS DECIDING HOW TO CONNECT CHOOSING DIALUP CHOOSING CABLE CHOOSING DSL CHOOSING A PROVIDER ONLINE SERVICES BASIC INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS GETTING INTERNET EXPLORER SETTING UP YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION USING THE WINDOWS XP NETWORK SETUP WIZARD DECIDING ON COMPUTER NAMES RUNNING THE WIZARD SETTING UP A NETWORK WITHOUT THE WIZARD CONFIGURING THE NETWORK CONNECTION IDENTIFYING YOUR COMPUTER SHARING HARD DRIVE FILES UNDERSTANDING HARD DRIVE SHARING FOUR GOOD USES FOR A SHARED FOLDER DESIGNATING A SHARED DRIVE OR FOLDER OH, THE NETWORK PLACES YOU’LL GO SHARING A PRINTER DESIGNATING A SHARED PRINTER USING A NETWORK PRINTER SHARING AN INTERNET CONNECTION SETTING UP A FIREWALL USING A BROADBAND ROUTER MANAGING YOUR HOME NETWORK NETWORKING OVER YOUR PHONE LINES NETWORKING OVER POWER LINES AUTOMATING YOUR HOME UNDERSTANDING VOIP ADVANTAGES OF VOIP DISADVANTAGES OF VOIP POPULAR VOIP PROVIDERS DIVING INTO WIRELESS NETWORKING A LITTLE HIGH SCHOOL ELECTRONICS WAVES AND FREQUENCIES WAVELENGTH AND ANTENNAS SPECTRUMS AND THE FCC EIGHT-OH-TWO-DOT-ELEVENTY SOMETHING? (OR, UNDERSTANDING WIRELESS STANDARDS) HOME ON THE RANGE WIRELESS NETWORK ADAPTERS WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS INFRASTRUCTURE MODE MULTIFUNCTION WAPS ROAMING WIRELESS BRIDGING AD-HOC NETWORKS CONFIGURING A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT BASIC CONFIGURATION OPTIONS DHCP CONFIGURATION CONFIGURING WINDOWS XP FOR WIRELESS NETWORKING USING A WIRELESS NETWORK WITH WINDOWS XP UNDERSTANDING WIRELESS SECURITY THREATS INTRUDERS FREELOADERS EAVESDROPPERS SPOILERS ROGUE ACCESS POINTS WHAT ABOUT WARDRIVERS AND WARCHALKERS? WARDRIVING WARCHALKING SECURING YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK CHANGING THE PASSWORD SECURING THE SSID ENABLING WEP USING WPA USING MAC ADDRESS FILTERING PLACING YOUR ACCESS POINTS OUTSIDE THE FIREWALL WHAT IS A HOTSPOT? WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HOTSPOTS? SAFE HOTSPOTTING FREE HOTSPOTS FEE-BASED HOTSPOTS T-MOBILE BOINGO WAYPORT SBC FREEDOMLINK SETTING UP YOUR OWN HOTSPOT CHECKING FOR OBVIOUS PROBLEMS PINPOINTING THE PROBLEM CHANGING CHANNELS FIDDLE WITH THE ANTENNAS ADDING ANOTHER ACCESS POINT HELP! I FORGOT MY ROUTER’S PASSWORD! UNDERSTANDING BLUETOOTH BLUETOOTH TECHNICAL STUFF HOW TO ADD BLUETOOTH TO YOUR COMPUTER USING BLUETOOTH IN WINDOWS XP INSTALLING A USB BLUETOOTH ADAPTER ENABLING DISCOVERY INSTALLING A BLUETOOTH MOUSE OR KEYBOARD PLANNING A WINDOWS SERVER INSTALLATION CHECKING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS READING THE RELEASE NOTES DECIDING WHETHER TO UPGRADE OR INSTALL CONSIDERING YOUR LICENSING OPTIONS THINKING ABOUT MULTIBOOT CHOOSING A FILE SYSTEM PLANNING YOUR PARTITIONS DECIDING YOUR TCP/IP CONFIGURATION CHOOSING WORKGROUPS OR DOMAINS BEFORE YOU INSTALL BACKING UP CHECKING THE EVENT LOGS UNCOMPRESSING DATA DISCONNECT UPS DEVICES RUNNING SETUP NOW WHAT? USING THE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT USING REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION ENABLING REMOTE ACCESS CONNECTING REMOTELY USING MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE WORKING WITH MMC AN OVERVIEW OF THE MMC CONSOLES CUSTOMIZING MMC ADDING SNAP-INS ADDING TASKPADS WHAT DIRECTORIES DO REMEMBERING THE GOOD-OL’ DAYS OF NT DOMAINS PDCS AND BDCS TRUSTS NETBIOS NAMES ACTIVE DIRECTORY TO THE RESCUE UNDERSTANDING HOW ACTIVE DIRECTORY IS STRUCTURED OBJECTS DOMAINS ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS TREES FORESTS CREATING A DOMAIN CREATING AN ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT UNDERSTANDING WINDOWS USER ACCOUNTS LOCAL ACCOUNTS VERSUS DOMAIN ACCOUNTS USER ACCOUNT PROPERTIES CREATING A NEW USER SETTING USER PROPERTIES CHANGING THE USER’S CONTACT INFORMATION SETTING ACCOUNT OPTIONS SPECIFYING LOGON HOURS RESTRICTING ACCESS TO CERTAIN COMPUTERS SETTING THE USER’S PROFILE INFORMATION RESETTING USER PASSWORDS DISABLING AND ENABLING USER ACCOUNTS DELETING A USER WORKING WITH GROUPS GROUP TYPES GROUP SCOPE DEFAULT GROUPS CREATING A GROUP ADDING A MEMBER TO A GROUP TYPES OF USER PROFILES CREATING A ROAMING PROFILE CREATING A LOGON SCRIPT UNDERSTANDING PERMISSIONS UNDERSTANDING SHARES CONFIGURING THE FILE SERVER ROLE MANAGING YOUR FILE SERVER SHARING A FOLDER FROM THE FILE SERVER MANAGER SHARING A FOLDER WITHOUT THE WIZARD GRANTING PERMISSIONS ADVANCED FEATURES FOR MANAGING FILE SERVERS CONFIGURING OFFLINE SETTINGS SETTING UP SHADOW COPIES DEALING WITH USERS CONFIGURING ACCOUNT POLICIES PASSWORD POLICIES ACCOUNT LOCKOUT POLICY KERBEROS POLICY SETTING ACCOUNT POLICIES ENCRYPTING FILES AND FOLDERS UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION UNDERSTANDING EFS ENCRYPTING A FOLDER SHARING AN ENCRYPTED FOLDER WITH OTHER USERS AUDITING SECURITY EVENTS USING THE RUNAS FEATURE USING THE EXCHANGE SYSTEM MANAGER CONSOLE MANAGING MAILBOXES THE EXCHANGE GENERAL TAB THE E-MAIL ADDRESSES TAB THE EXCHANGE FEATURES TAB THE EXCHANGE ADVANCED TAB CONFIGURING OUTLOOK FOR EXCHANGE VIEWING ANOTHER MAILBOX WORKING WITH THE EVENT VIEWER USING THE EVENT VIEWER SETTING EVENT LOG POLICIES MONITORING PERFORMANCE USING THE PERFORMANCE CONSOLE CREATING PERFORMANCE LOGS USING THE COMPUTER MANAGEMENT CONSOLE WORKING WITH SERVICES USING A COMMAND WINDOW OPENING AND CLOSING A COMMAND WINDOW EDITING COMMANDS USING THE CONTROL MENU SPECIAL COMMAND TRICKS WILDCARDS CHAINING COMMANDS REDIRECTION AND PIPING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES BATCH FILES THE EVENTCREATE COMMAND NET COMMANDS THE NET ACCOUNTS COMMAND THE NET COMPUTER COMMAND THE NET CONFIG COMMAND THE NET CONTINUE COMMAND THE NET FILE COMMAND THE NET GROUP COMMAND THE NET HELP COMMAND THE NET HELPMSG COMMAND THE NET LOCALGROUP COMMAND THE NET NAME COMMAND THE NET PAUSE COMMAND THE NET PRINT COMMAND THE NET SEND COMMAND THE NET SESSION COMMAND THE NET SHARE COMMAND THE NET START COMMAND THE NET STATISTICS COMMAND THE NET STOP COMMAND THE NET TIME COMMAND THE NET USE COMMAND THE NET USER COMMAND THE NET VIEW COMMAND THE RUNAS COMMAND PLANNING A LINUX SERVER INSTALLATION CHOOSING A DISTRIBUTION FIGURING OUT HOW YOU’LL BOOT DURING INSTALLATION INSTALLING FEDORA CORE 3 USING THE SETUP AGENT INSTALLING ADDITIONAL PACKAGES LINUX: IT ISN’T WINDOWS X WINDOW VIRTUAL CONSOLES UNDERSTANDING THE FILE SYSTEM ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN LOGGING OFF SHUTTING DOWN USING GNOME GETTING TO A COMMAND SHELL MANAGING USER ACCOUNTS USING THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION PROGRAM RESTARTING YOUR NETWORK WORKING WITH NETWORK CONFIGURATION FILES THE NETWORK FILE THE IFCFG FILES THE HOSTS FILE THE RESOLV CONF FILE THE NSSWITCH CONF FILE THE XINETD CONF FILE DISPLAYING YOUR NETWORK CONFIGURATION WITH THE IFCONFIG COMMAND RUNNING A DHCP SERVER INSTALLING DHCP CONFIGURING DHCP STARTING DHCP RUNNING A DNS SERVER INSTALLING BIND LOOKING AT BIND CONFIGURATION FILES NAMED CONF NAMED CUSTOM NAMED CA NAMED LOCAL ZONE FILES CREATING A ZONE WITH THE RED HAT BIND CONFIGURATION TOOL RESTARTING BIND UNDERSTANDING SAMBA INSTALLING SAMBA STARTING AND STOPPING SAMBA USING THE SAMBA SERVER CONFIGURATION TOOL CONFIGURING SERVER SETTINGS CONFIGURING SERVER USERS CREATING A SHARE EDITING THE SMB CONF FILE USING THE SAMBA CLIENT INSTALLING APACHE STARTING AND STOPPING APACHE CONFIRMING THAT APACHE IS RUNNING USING THE HTTP CONFIGURATION TOOL RESTRICTING ACCESS TO AN APACHE SERVER CONFIGURING VIRTUAL HOSTS CONFIGURING THE DEFAULT HOST CREATING A VIRTUAL HOST SETTING THE APACHE USER ACCOUNT MANUALLY EDITING APACHE’S CONFIGURATION FILES CREATING WEB PAGES UNDERSTANDING E-MAIL INSTALLING SENDMAIL MODIFYING SENDMAIL MC ENABLING CONNECTIONS ENABLING MASQUERADING SETTING UP ALIASES USING SPAMASSASSIN INSTALLING SPAMASSASSIN CUSTOMIZING SPAMASSASSIN BLACKLISTING AND WHITELISTING E-MAIL ADDRESSES USING THE MAIL CONSOLE CLIENT USING EVOLUTION COMMAND SHELL BASICS GETTING TO A SHELL SHELL SCRIPTS DIRECTORY AND FILE HANDLING COMMANDS THE PWD COMMAND THE CD COMMAND THE MKDIR COMMAND THE RMDIR COMMAND THE LS COMMAND THE CP COMMAND THE RM COMMAND THE MV COMMAND THE TOUCH COMMAND THE CAT COMMAND COMMANDS FOR WORKING WITH PACKAGES AND SERVICES THE SERVICE COMMAND THE RPM COMMAND COMMANDS FOR ADMINISTERING USERS THE USERADD COMMAND THE USERMOD COMMAND THE USERDEL COMMAND THE CHAGE COMMAND THE PASSWD COMMAND THE NEWUSERS COMMAND THE GROUPADD COMMAND THE GROUPDEL COMMAND THE GPASSWD COMMAND COMMANDS FOR MANAGING OWNERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS THE CHOWN COMMAND THE CHGRP COMMAND THE CHMOD COMMAND NETWORKING COMMANDS THE HOSTNAME COMMAND THE IFCONFIG COMMAND THE NETSTAT COMMAND THE PING COMMAND THE ROUTE COMMAND THE TRACEROUTE COMMAND