Networking For Dummies - page 1
- Do You Need Security?
- Two Approaches to Security
- Physical Security: Locking Your Doors
- Securing User Accounts
- Managing User Security
- Securing Your Users
- Chapter 23: Hardening Your Network
- The Many Types of Firewalls
- The Built-In Firewall in Windows XP and Windows Vista
- Virus Protection
- Patching Things Up
- Part VI: Beyond Windows
- Chapter 24: Networking with Linux
- Choosing a Linux Distribution
- Installing Linux
- On Again, Off Again
- Using GNOME
- Getting to a Command Shell
- Managing User Accounts
- Network Configuration
- Doing the Samba Dance
- Chapter 25: Macintosh Networking
- What You Need to Know to Use a Macintosh Network
- What You Need to Know to Network Macintoshes with PCs
- Part VII: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 26: More Than Ten Big Network Mistakes
- Turning Off or Restarting a Server Computer While Users Are Logged On
- Deleting Important Files on the Server
- Copying a File from the Server, Changing It, and Then Copying It Back
- Sending Something to the Printer Again Just Because It Didn t Print the First Time
- Assuming That the Server Is Safely Backed Up
- Connecting to the Internet without Considering Security Issues
- Plugging In a Wireless Access Point without Asking
- Thinking You Can t Work Just Because the Network Is Down
- Running Out of Space on a Server
- Always Blaming the Network
- Chapter 27: Ten Networking Commandments
- II. Thou Shalt Protect Thy Network from Infidels
- III. Thou Shalt Keepeth Thy Network Drive Pure and Cleanse It of Old Files
- IV. Thou Shalt Not Tinker with Thine Network Configuration Unless Thou Knowest What Thou Art Doing
- V. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor s Network
- VI. Thou Shalt Schedule Downtime before Working upon Thy Network
- VII. Thou Shalt Keep an Adequate Supply of Spare Parts
- VIII. Thou Shalt Not Steal Thy Neighbor s Program without a License
- IX. Thou Shalt Train Thy Users in the Ways of the Network
- X. Thou Shalt Write Down Thy Network Configuration upon Tablets of Stone
- Chapter 28: Ten Things You Should Keep in Your Closet
- Tools
- Patch Cables
- Cable Ties
- Twinkies
- Extra Network Cards
- Cheap Network Switches
- The Complete Documentation of the Network on Tablets of Stone
- The Network Manuals and Disks
- Ten Copies of This Book
- Chapter 29: Layers of the OSI Model
- Layer 1: The Physical Layer
- Layer 2: The Data Link Layer
- Layer 3: The Network Layer
- Layer 4: The Transport Layer
- Layer 4a: The Lemon-Pudding Layer
- Layer 5: The Session Layer
- Layer 6: The Presentation Layer
- Layer 7: The Application Layer
- Index
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