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Windows 2000 Server for Dummies
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If you're new to Windows 2000 Server or to networks in general, fear not, because using a network is not beyond anyone's wits or abilities -- it's mostly a matter of using a language that ordinary people can understand.
Windows 2000 Server For Dummies
covers new Web-enabled network features and Active Directory administration for Windows 2000 in plain language. It's full of easy-to-understand instructions that enable you to find your way around a Windows 2000 Server-based network and . . . - Grasp basic networking concepts and terminology
- Understand network design, layout principles, and installation configurations
- Review software components common on Windows 2000-based networks
- Install and configure Windows 2000 Server
- Manage users and groups on a Windows 2000-based network
- Conduct a review of network security principles and practices to protect your data from accidental loss or vandalism
- Troubleshoot common causes of trouble on Windows 2000-based networks
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book - How to Use This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: Laying the Network Foundation
- Part II: Hooking Up the Hardware
- Part III: Servers, Start Your Engines!
- Part IV: Running Your Network
- Part V: Troubleshooting Server Snafus
- Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
Part I: Laying the Network Foundation
Chapter 1: Making Networks Make Sense
- What's This about a Network?
- No hardware means no connections!
- Without software, networks don't work
- Investigating Your Network's Facilities
- Workstations for everyone!
- A server is always at your service
- The common path of networking
- What Is the Sound of a Working Network?
- Knowing how to ask is where the game begins
- What's on today's menu?
- It's All about Sharing Resources
- Windows Networking Trends
Chapter 2: Networking the Client/Server Way
- Clients Request Services
- Making the connection
- Software uses the connection
- Servers Deliver Services
- Servers thread through a maze of requests
- Software is similar on the server side
- Decoding a Client/Server Conversation
- Clients and Network Access Software
- Built-in Functions versus Network Add-ons
- Managing Network Components
- Unmasking the Microsoft network
- Understanding the Novell network
- Managing Access to Resources
- A Windows Network Services Sampler
Chapter 3: Matters of Protocol
- When Computers Communicate
- The secret's in the interpretation . . .
- Following Protocol
- Whales come in pods, protocols in suites
- Protocols permeate all aspects of networking
- Protocols as Postal Centers
- The Dance of the Seven Layers
- Windows 2000 Protocols (And More)
- DLC: Golden oldie
- IPX/SPX: The original NetWare protocols
- TCP/IP: The Internet suite
- NetBIOS/NetBEUI: The original Microsoft duo
- Other faces, other protocols
- When to Mix Protocols
- How to See What's Up on Your Server
Chapter 4: My Kingdom for a Topology!
- What Is a Topology, Really?
- The star of the network world
- Get on the bus!
- Run rings around your network
- A Network Technology Primer
- And the technology contestants are . . .
- Find your way to FDDI
- Accelerating to ATM
- About Ancillary Equipment
- Mixing and Matching Network Technologies
Part II: Hooking Up the Hardware
Chapter 5: Network Design Basics
- Begin at the Beginning: Requirements
- Network Design's Barest Basics
- Deciding Where Networking Devices Must Go
- Always Check Your Work!
- Don't Take Your Eyes Off the Ball
- Every Network Map Tells a Story
- It's not a map; it's the whole enchilada!
- Capturing data for your network map
- Take stock of your network
- When the network changes, so does the map!
Chapter 6: Installing Network Interface Cards (NICs)
- What Makes a NIC Tick?
- Find the Newest Bus -- and Use It Well!
- Selecting Speedy Server NICs
- Preparing to Stick in the NIC
- Beware the Golden Fingers!
- Old-Fashioned NIC Configuration
- NICcus interruptus
- Flick all DIP switches the right way
- Jumping blocks for fun and networking!
- Beware de defaults
- Sail into the right I/O port
- Can we be direct? Setting DMA
- MemBase is not a musical instrument
- In the Driver's Seat
- Bringing the NIC to the Cable
- When Trouble Shoots at You, Be Ready to Shoot Back!
Chapter 7: Hooking Up Your Network
- Make a Network Medium Happy!
- Cabling is easy, but comes in many varieties
- Coaxial (coax) cable
- A final note about cabling
- Raising the Bandwidth Ceiling
- 100 Mbps Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
- The Backbone's Connected to. . . Everything Else!
- When There's More than One Network, It's an Internetwork
- Beyond Local Networks
Part III: Servers, Start Your Engines!
Chapter 8: Meet Windows 2000
- The Very Basics of Windows 2000
- System-level changes
- New features
- Why Use Windows 2000 Server?
- Lowered TCO
- Faster and more reliable
- Exploit the full advantages of Active Directory
- More networking
- Improved Internet and network access
- Advanced administration tools
Chapter 9: Ready . . . , Set . . . , Install!
- Installation: Upgrade or New?
- Preparing for the battle
- Got Enough Horsepower?
- Step-by-Step: Installing Windows 2000
- Server: Are you ready?
- Windows 2000 Setup: DOS portion
- Windows 2000 Setup: GUI portion
- Installing Directly from the CD-ROM
- Installing Across a Network
- Remote Installation
- Post-Installation Stress Disorder
- Windows 2000 Service Packs
- Emergency Repair Disk
- Oops, My Installation Didn't Take
- About Automated Installation
Chapter 10: Configuring Connections to the Universe
- Meeting the Configure Your Server Wizard
- Going home
- Getting the word out
- Organizing the neighborhood
- Remote Connections
- Getting connected
- Other frills
Chapter 11: Doing the Directory Thing
- What Is a Directory Service?
- Meet Active Directory
- Organizing and storing data
- Managing data
- Locating data and resources
- Of Domains and Controllers
- In the beginning . . .
- Wherefore art thou, BDC/PDC?
- What Makes Active Directory Tick?
- What replication means
- The grand schema things
- Global catalogs
- Planning for Active Directory
- What's in a namespace?
- Making sites happen
- Oh, you organizational unit (OU), you
- Installing Active Directory
- Promoting domain controllers
- Active Directory's database and shared system volume
- Modes of domain operation
- When Domains Multiply
- Trust relationships across domains
- Building trees
- Understanding forests
Chapter 12: Working with Active Directory, Domains, and Trusts
- Master of Your Domain
- Trusts Are Good for Windows NT 4.0 and Active Directory Domains
- How domain controllers work together
- Administrivia Anyone? (Controlling Domains and Directories)
- The directory management console
- Creating directory objects
- Finding directory objects
- A final word on ADSI
- Permission to Proceed? Handling Directory Permissions
- About Active Directory permissions
- Assigning permissions
- Permissions inheritance
- Delegating administrative control
- Managing Trusts
- Establishing trusts
- If you open the door to trusts, who gets to come through?
Chapter 13: Printing on the Network
- Windows 2000 Has a Print Model
- Physical print devices
- Logical assignments
- Server-Side Installation
- Meet the Printers folder
- Adding a (networked) printer
- Sharing Printer Access
- Bringing Printers and Clients Together
- Managing Windows 2000-Based Printers
- Preventing Printer Problems
Chapter 14: IP Addressing: Zero to Insane in Two Seconds Flat
- Resolving a Name: TCP/IP and NetBIOS
- NetBIOS names
- TCP/IP names and addresses
- Calling Every Node
- To network ID or host ID, that is the question
- Subnetting: Quiet time for IP addresses
- Putting your shingle out: Obtaining Internet IP addresses
- Address translation: The new magic
- Forcing IP down 2000's Throat
- Everybody WINS Sometime
- A glimpse at WINS
- WINS servers
- WINS clients
- NetBIOS over TCP/IP
- DNS Does the Trick
- Whether to DNS
- The deans of DNS
- DHCP: IP Addressing Automation
- What is DHCP?
- Is DHCP in your future?
- Ironing Out the Problems
- Enough TCP/IP to Choke a Hippo
Part IV: Running Your Network
Chapter 15: Managing Users with Active Directory Users and Computers
- Users Have Properties
- Administrators rule!
- Guests can wear out their welcome
- Creating New Users
- General
- Address
- Account
- Profile
- Telephones
- Organization
- Member Of
- Dial-in information
- Getting Pushy with Users
- What About Groups?
- Give Your Users Nice Profiles
- Where You Find Profiles, Policies Are Never Far Away
- Creating a new group policy
- Auditing for trouble
- When Access Problems Loom. . . .
Chapter 16: Managing Shares, Permissions, and More
- More About Objects, Rights, and Permissions
- An object lesson . . .
- When is a file NOT an object?
- Users have rights; objects have permissions
- Of Windows 2000 NTFS and Permissions
- NTFS permissions
- Advanced permissions
- FAT and FAT32 Have No Permissions
- Share Permissions
- Calculating Actual Permissions
- The rules of calculation
- Figure this!
- Undo the Default!
- But What about Access Control with Active Directory Objects?
- Delegation of access control
- Property-based inheritance
Chapter 17: Backing Up for a Rainy Day
- Why Bother Backing Up?
- Just how many types of backups are there?
- Network versus local backup
- Understanding the technology
- Beep! Beep! Planning Backups
- Store backup tapes off-site
- Document your hardware and its settings
- Practice disaster recovery for your system
- The Windows 2000 Backup Facility
- The big picture
- Command line backups
- Selecting files and folders
- Specifying backup destination, media settings
- Scheduling backup jobs
- Running NTBACKUP in the background
- Restoring from a Backup
- Third-Party Backup Options
- The Backup Operator
Chapter 18: Network Security Management
- They Are Always Out to Get You
- Network Security Basics
- Getting physical
- Informing the masses
- Windows 2000 and Security
- Usernames are more than just names
- Passwords and security
- Two or three things we know about passwords
- A Look into the Future: Service Packs
- Cop an Attitude
- The Everyone group
- User rights
- Common Mouse Holes
- Unseen administrative shares
- Decoy accounts
- Broadcasting internal information
- Last logged on username
- When floppies go bad
- Polly want a cracker?
- Security Equals Vigilance
Part V: Troubleshooting Server Snafus
Chapter 19: Using Windows 2000 Troubleshooting Utilities
- Event Viewer Reveals
- Taking a Dump
- Windows 2000 Computer Management
- Performance Monitor
- Counting yer objects
- Of logs and alerts
- Some light summer reading
- Windows 2000 Resource Kit Utilities
Chapter 20: Nixing Network Problems
- When Good Networks Go Bad
- What's healthy? Creating a baseline
- Documenting problems
- 30,000-foot view
- Open Up and Say Ahhhhh!
- The network's getting sleepy . . . very sleepy
- Yeah man, it's NetMon
- Check Those Network Settings: Again!
- What Do You Mean the Server's Unavailable?
- Slow Networking Services
- Hark! I hear a board beaconing
- Oh where, oh where has the bandwidth gone?
- Congestion on the network: Pass the Kleenex please
- Where did all the disk space go?
- Do it after hours
- Can't Get "There" from "Here"
- Tracking Down Intermittent Problems
Chapter 21: Reactivating Active Directory
- Domain Controller, Heal Thyself
- When All Is Not Quiet on the Western Front
- Common Issues
- Communication interruption
- Group Policy problems
- Domain controller communication
- Backing Up and Restoring Directory Data
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 22: Ten Top Tips for Windows 2000 Server Installation and Configuration
- Minimum Requirements and Recommendations
- Qualifying Server Hardware
- Installing from Your Network
- Let the Software Do the Work: Automating Installation
- When Installation Gets Weird
- [VGA Mode] to the Rescue!
- When "Last Known Good" Does Good!
- Using the Windows 2000 Startup Disks
- When in Doubt, Back Up!
- Now for the Real Work!
Chapter 23: Ten Steps to Networking Nirvana with Windows 2000 Server
- Never Overlook the Obvious
- When Windows 2000 Must Route Packets
- Tools for Handling TCP/IP Trouble
- Fast Server NICs Make Fast Networks
- When to Divide, and When to Conquer
- When in Doubt, Check Your Services
- Handling Names and Addresses
- What's New or Different?
- If You Need It, Ask for Help
- Prevention Beats Cure, Every Time!
Index
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