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NovellR Linux Certification Practium Lab Manual Authors: Dulaney E. Published year: 2004 Pages: 13-15/192 |
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
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:
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:
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Chapter 1. Novell Linux Desktop 9The 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
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Exercise 1: Armstrong's Auto BodyYou 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:
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. NOTES _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ |
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NovellR Linux Certification Practium Lab Manual Authors: Dulaney E. Published year: 2004 Pages: 13-15/192 |