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Chapter 1: Networks Will Not Take Over the World, and Other Network Basics

Figure 1-1: A typical network.
Figure 1-2: Your official

Chapter 2: Life on the Network

Figure 2-1: You have to enter your user ID and password to access the network.
Figure 2-2: Browsing the network in Windows Vista.
Figure 2-3: The resources available on a server computer.
Figure 2-4: Browsing the network in Office 2007.
Figure 2-5: The Map Network Drive dialog box.
Figure 2-6: Browsing for the folder to map.
Figure 2-7: The Computer folder shows a mapped network drive.
Figure 2-8: The Add Printer Wizard comes to life.
Figure 2-9: The Add Printer Wizard asks you to pick a printer.
Figure 2-10: A typical Print dialog box.
Figure 2-11: Managing a print queue.

Chapter 3: More Ways to Use Your Network

Figure 3-1: The Network dialog box.
Figure 3-2: The Network and Sharing Center.
Figure 3-3: Activating the file sharing feature.
Figure 3-4: The Sharing options come to life when you select the Share This Folder on the Network check box (in Windows XP).
Figure 3-5: The File Sharing dialog box (in Windows Vista).
Figure 3-6: The folder has been shared.
Figure 3-7: The Public folder.
Figure 3-8: The Printers and Faxes folder.
Figure 3-9: Sharing a printer in Windows Vista.
Figure 3-10: The Open dialog box in Excel 2007.
Figure 3-11: Setting the file locations in Word 2007.
Figure 3-12: Offline file properties.

Chapter 4: Planning Your Network

Figure 4-1: The Properties dialog box for a hard drive shows the drive's total capacity and the amount of free space available on the drive.
Figure 4-2: The System Properties dialog box for a computer running Windows Vista with 2GB of RAM.
Figure 4-3: Using the Device Manager to probe for hardware devices.
Figure 4-4: Displaying system information.
Figure 4-5: Using Visio to create a network diagram.
Figure 4-6: The California Sport Surface peer-to- peer network.
Figure 4-7: The Creative Course Development wireless network solution.
Figure 4-8: The DCH Accounting upgraded network.

Chapter 5: Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave-Cables, Adapters, and Other Stuff

Figure 5-1: Twisted-pair cable.
Figure 5-2: A network cabled with twisted-pair cable.
Figure 5-3: Attaching an RJ-45 connector to twisted- pair cable.
Figure 5-4: Using wall jacks and patch panels.
Figure 5-5: You can daisy-chain hubs or switches together.
Figure 5-6: Removing your computer's cover.
Figure 5-7: Using a repeater.
Figure 5-8: Using a router to connect a LAN to the Internet.

Chapter 6: Dealing with TCP/IP

Figure 6-1: A network before and after subnetting.
Figure 6-2: Specifying the scope's address range and subnet mask.
Figure 6-3: The DHCP management console.
Figure 6-4: Configuring a Windows client to use DHCP.
Figure 6-5: DNS names.
Figure 6-6: The Configure a DNS Server Wizard.
Figure 6-7: The New Host dialog box.
Figure 6-8: Configuring a Windows client to obtain its DNS address from DHCP8m.

Chapter 7: Setting Up a Server

Figure 7-1: Displaying active tasks on a Windows Server 2003 computer.
Figure 7-2: Active Directory Users and Computers.
Figure 7-3: Activating Windows.
Figure 7-4: You can use this page to configure the roles your server will play.

Chapter 8: Configuring Windows XP and Vista Clients

Figure 8-1: The Network Connections folder.
Figure 8-2: The Properties dialog box for a network connection.
Figure 8-3: The Properties dialog box for a network adapter.
Figure 8-4: Configuring TCP/IP.
Figure 8-5: The Network and Sharing Center (Windows Vista).
Figure 8-6: The Network Connections folder.
Figure 8-7: The Properties dialog box for a network connection (Windows Vista).
Figure 8-8: The Computer Name Changes dialog box (Windows XP).
Figure 8-9: The System Information window (Windows Vista).
Figure 8-10: The System Properties dialog box (Windows Vista).
Figure 8-11: The Computer Name/ Domain Changes dialog box (Windows Vista).

Chapter 9: Wireless Networking

Figure 9-1: Radio waves frequently have frequency.
Figure 9-2: Ward, Wally, and Beaver playing with their wireless network.
Figure 9-3: A wireless access point connects a wireless network to a cabled network.
Figure 9-4: The main configuration page for a typical wireless access point router.
Figure 9-5: Configuring DHCP for a Linksys wireless access point router.
Figure 9-6: Configuring wireless networking in Windows XP.
Figure 9-7: Adding a wireless network in Windows XP.
Figure 9-8: The Wireless Network Connection Status dialog box.

Chapter 10: Connecting Your Network to the Internet

Figure 10-1: A firewall router creates a secure link between a network and the Internet.
Figure 10-2: The Windows Vista Firewall dialog box.

Chapter 11: Running a Mail Server

Figure 11-1: The Exchange System Manager console.
Figure 11-2: The Exchange General tab.
Figure 11-3: The E-mail Addresses tab.
Figure 11-4: The Exchange Features tab.
Figure 11-5: The Exchange Advanced tab.
Figure 11-6: The first page of the E-mail Accounts dialog box.
Figure 11-7: Outlook can handle many different types of e-mail accounts.
Figure 11-8: You must identify the Exchange server and provide a username.
Figure 11-9: Don Pardo, tell them what they've done.
Figure 11-10: The Mailbox Rights tab.
Figure 11-11: The e-mail accounts configured for an Outlook client.
Figure 11-12: The Exchange Server Settings dialog box.
Figure 11-13: The Advanced tab of the Microsoft Exchange Server dialog box.

Chapter 12: Creating an Intranet

Figure 12-1: The Configure Your Server Wizard displays a list of server roles.
Figure 12-2: The Configure Your Server Wizard gives you options.
Figure 12-3: The Configure Your Server Wizard is ready to go.
Figure 12-4: The Configure Your Server Wizard is finished.
Figure 12-5: Behold your intranet!
Figure 12-6: The IIS Manager.
Figure 12-7: The Properties dialog box for the default Web site.

Chapter 14: Connecting from Home

Figure 14-1: OWA looks a lot like Outlook.
Figure 14-2: Setting OWA options.

Chapter 16: Managing User Accounts with Active Directory

Figure 16-1: The Active Directory Users and Computers management console.
Figure 16-2: Creating a new user.
Figure 16-3: Setting the user's password.
Figure 16-4: Verifying the user account information.
Figure 16-5: The General tab.
Figure 16-6: The Account tab.
Figure 16-7: The Profile tab.
Figure 16-8: Creating a new group.
Figure 16-9: Adding members to a group.

Chapter 17: Managing Network Storage

Figure 17-1: The Manage Your Server window lets you configure roles for your server.
Figure 17-2: The Server Role page.
Figure 17-3: The File Server Disk Quotas page.
Figure 17-4: Congratulations! You successfully created a file server.
Figure 17-5: The File Server Manager console.
Figure 17-6: The Share a Folder Wizard comes to life.
Figure 17-7: Specify the folder you want to share.
Figure 17-8: Assigning a share name.
Figure 17-9: The share was created successfully!
Figure 17-10: The Share Permissions tab.

Chapter 18: Network Performance Anxiety

Figure 18-1: Monitoring performance in Windows Server 2003.
Figure 18-2: Adding performance counters.
Figure 18-3: The Performance Monitor in Histogram mode.
Figure 18-4: The Performance Monitor inReport mode.
Figure 18-5: Setting up a performance log.
Figure 18-6: Choosing a log to display.

Chapter 19: Solving Network Problems

Figure 19-1: The Services tool.
Figure 19-2: Tracking shutdowns in Windows Server 2003.
Figure 19-3: Event logs keep track of interesting and potentially troublesome events.

Chapter 23: Hardening Your Network

Figure 23-1: A firewall router creates a secure link between a network and the Internet.
Figure 23-2: The Windows Firewall dialog box.

Chapter 24: Networking with Linux

Figure 24-1: Logging in (on, whatever) to Linux.
Figure 24-2: A typical GNOME desktop.
Figure 24-3: Using a Terminal window to run Linux commands.
Figure 24-4: The User Manager.
Figure 24-5: The Network Configuration program.
Figure 24-6: The Ethernet Device window is where you configure basic TCP/IP settings.
Figure 24-7: The Service Configuration window.
Figure 24-8: Using the Samba Server Configuration tool.
Figure 24-9: The Samba Users dialog box lists your Samba users.
Figure 24-10: The Create Samba Share dialog box.

Chapter 29: Layers of the OSI Model

Figure 29-1: Displaying the MAC address of your network adapter.