NovellR Linux Certification Practium Lab Manual
Authors: Dulaney E.
Published year: 2004
Pages: 13-15/192
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What Do You Need?

In order to work through the exercises in this book, you need a test environment in which you can experiment without inflicting harm on any production machines. For the NLD client, the requirements for a standard installation are

  • Pentium II+ 266MHz or any AMD64 or Intel EM64T processor

  • 128MB RAM

  • 800MB free hard drive space

  • 800x600 or higher resolution

NOTE

For some of the exercises, you will also need a printer and access to another NLD 9 workstation.


Though the preceding numbers are the minimum, the following requirements are more realistic for an environment you can be comfortable working within:

  • Pentium 3 1GHz processor

  • 512MB RAM

  • 20GB free hard drive space

  • 1024x768 or higher resolution

  • 100Mb/sec Ethernet card

For the SLES machine, you need a machine that will meet the standard requirements of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, a client workstation (the NLD one works best), and an Internet connection. The requirements given for a comfortable NLD environment will work well:

  • Pentium 3 1GHz processor

  • 512MB RAM

  • 20GB free hard drive space

  • 1024x768 or higher resolution

  • 100Mb/sec Ethernet card


Chapter 1. Novell Linux Desktop 9

The 15 exercises that follow allow you to test your knowledge with Novell Linux Desktop 9. No other operating system, or software, is required to be able to work through these labs. Step-by-step solutions appear in Chapter 4, "Solutions to Exercises."

NOTE

In order to do exercise 7, you will also need access to a printer. Likewise, in order to do exercise 12, you will need access to another NLD 9 workstation.


Table 1.1 lists the tasks this section covers and which exercise each of those tasks can be found in.

Table 1.1. Tasks Within This Section

TASK

EXERCISE

Adding a User

Exercise 2

Adding a User During Installation

Exercise 1

Archiving Files

Exercise 10

Changing Global User Account Settings

Exercise 2

Changing Login Shell

Exercise 2

Changing Password Encryption

Exercises 1, 2

Changing User Account Settings

Exercise 2

Changing Your Password

Exercise 5

Checking the Start Logs

Exercise 15

Compressing Files

Exercise 10

Using File Roller

Exercise 10

Configuring the Desktop

Exercise 2

Configuring a GNOME Shortcut

Exercise 3

Configuring the Local Printer

Exercise 8

Creating a Backup

Exercise 13

Creating a Rescue Floppy

Exercise 13

Creating a KDE Shortcut

Exercise 8

Creating Launcher

Exercise 4

Disabling Remote Administration

Exercise 15

Enabling Accessibility Options

Exercise 3

Installing a Software Package

Exercise 3

Installing Another Desktop

Exercise 3

Installing SMB Printer

Exercise 7

Installing Novell Linux Desktop 9

Exercise 1

Killing a Process

Exercise 11

Making KDE the Default Interface

Exercise 1

Remote Desktop Sharing

Exercise 12

Resizing Partitions

Exercise 14

Searching for Files

Exercise 6

Updating the Operating System

Exercise 9

Using Terminal Window

Exercise 5



Exercise 1: Armstrong's Auto Body

You are a consultant in the small business division of your company. You have been dispatched to Armstrong's Auto Body in Middletown, where a new workstation to be used in the front office has just arrived. They have requested that the operating system on this machine be replaced with the latest version of Novell Linux Desktop 9.

One of the administrators at the site has used the KDE interface before and likes it, so that should be the default front end. The administrator password needs to be N7Press and encryption should be set to MD5. In addition to the root user, add another user with the following information:

Full Username:

Ken Armstrong

User Login:

kenarm

Password:

ntSc9

Receive System Mail:

Yes

Auto Login:

No

Additional Groups:

audio, cdrom , and dialout


Authentication files used should be /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You need to make sure that they have Internet connectivity and the kenarm user can log in without problem, and then your assignment is completed.

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NovellR Linux Certification Practium Lab Manual
Authors: Dulaney E.
Published year: 2004
Pages: 13-15/192
Buy this book on amazon.com >>