Networking for Dummies - Doug Lowe

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Résumé :

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Getting Started with Networking?5

Chapter 1: Let's Network! 7

Defining a Network 8

Why Bother with a Network? 11

Sharing files 11

Sharing resources 11

Sharing programs 12

Sharing messages 12

Servers and Clients 13

Dedicated Servers and Peers 13

What Makes a Network Tick? 15

It's Not a Personal Computer Anymore! 16

The Network Administrator 17

What Have They Got That You Don't Got? 18

Chapter 2: Configuring Windows and Mac Clients 21

Configuring Windows Network Connections 22

Joining a Windows Computer to a Domain 27

Configuring Mac Network Settings 29

Joining a Mac Computer to a Domain 33

Chapter 3: Life on the Network 37

Distinguishing between Local Resources and Network Resources 38

What's in a Name? 38

Logging on to the Network 40

Understanding Shared Folders 42

Four Good Uses for a Shared Folder 43

Store files that everybody needs 43

Store your own files 44

Make a temporary resting place for files on their way to other users 44

Back up your local hard drive 45

Oh, the Network Places You'll Go 45

Mapping Network Drives 47

Using a Network Printer 50

Adding a network printer 51

Printing to a network printer 52

Playing with the print queue 53

Logging off the Network 55

Chapter 4: More Ways to Use Your Network 57

Sharing Your Stuff 57

Enabling File and Printer Sharing 58

Sharing a Folder 59

Using the Public Folder 61

Sharing a Printer 62

Using Microsoft Office on a Network 64

Accessing network files 64

Using workgroup templates 65

Networking an Access database 67

Working with Offline Files 68

Part 2: Designing Your Network?73

Chapter 5: Planning a Network 75

Making a Network Plan 75

Being Purposeful 76

Taking Stock 77

What you need to know 77

Programs that gather information for you 79

To Dedicate or Not to Dedicate: That Is the Question 80

File servers 81

Print servers 81

Web servers 82

Mail servers 82

Database servers 83

Application servers 83

License servers 83

Choosing a Server Operating System 83

Planning the Infrastructure 84

Drawing Diagrams 84

Chapter 6: Dealing with TCP/IP 87

Understanding Binary 88

Counting by ones 88

Doing the logic thing 89

Introducing IP Addresses 90

Networks and hosts 90

The dotted-decimal dance 91

Classifying IP Addresses 91

Class A addresses 92

Class B addresses 93

Class C addresses 93

Subnetting 94

Subnets 95

Subnet masks 96

The great subnet roundup 97

Private and public addresses 98

Understanding Network Address Translation 98

Configuring Your Network for DHCP 99

Understanding DHCP 100

DHCP servers 100

Understanding scopes 101

Feeling excluded? 102

Reservations suggested 103

How long to lease? 104

Managing a Windows Server 2019 DHCP Server 104

Configuring a Windows DHCP Client 105

Using DNS 106

Domains and domain names 106

Fully qualified domain names 108

Working with the Windows DNS Server 109

Configuring a Windows DNS Client 110

Chapter 7: Oh, What a ...