Networking for dummies
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Hoboken, N.J.:
John Wiley
c2020.
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| Edición: | 12th ed |
| Colección: | --For dummies
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| Materias: | |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631007406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Getting Started with Networking
- Chapter 1 Let's Network!
- Defining a Network
- Why Bother with a Network?
- Sharing files
- Sharing resources
- Sharing programs
- Sharing messages
- Servers and Clients
- Dedicated Servers and Peers
- What Makes a Network Tick?
- It's Not a Personal Computer Anymore!
- The Network Administrator
- What Have They Got That You Don't Got?
- Chapter 2 Configuring Windows and Mac Clients
- Configuring Windows Network Connections
- Joining a Windows Computer to a Domain
- Configuring Mac Network Settings
- Joining a Mac Computer to a Domain
- Chapter 3 Life on the Network
- Distinguishing between Local Resources and Network Resources
- What's in a Name?
- Logging on to the Network
- Understanding Shared Folders
- Four Good Uses for a Shared Folder
- Store files that everybody needs
- Store your own files
- Make a temporary resting place for files on their way to other users
- Back up your local hard drive
- Oh, the Network Places You'll Go
- Mapping Network Drives
- Using a Network Printer
- Adding a network printer
- Printing to a network printer
- Playing with the print queue
- Logging off the Network
- Chapter 4 More Ways to Use Your Network
- Sharing Your Stuff
- Enabling File and Printer Sharing
- Sharing a Folder
- Using the Public Folder
- Sharing a Printer
- Using Microsoft Office on a Network
- Accessing network files
- Using workgroup templates
- Networking an Access database
- Working with Offline Files
- Part 2 Designing Your Network
- Chapter 5 Planning a Network
- Making a Network Plan
- Being Purposeful
- Taking Stock
- What you need to know.
- Programs that gather information for you
- To Dedicate or Not to Dedicate: That Is the Question
- File servers
- Print servers
- Web servers
- Mail servers
- Database servers
- Application servers
- License servers
- Choosing a Server Operating System
- Planning the Infrastructure
- Drawing Diagrams
- Chapter 6 Dealing with TCP/IP
- Understanding Binary
- Counting by ones
- Doing the logic thing
- Introducing IP Addresses
- Networks and hosts
- The dotted-decimal dance
- Classifying IP Addresses
- Class A addresses
- Class B addresses
- Class C addresses
- Subnetting
- Subnets
- Subnet masks
- The great subnet roundup
- Private and public addresses
- Understanding Network Address Translation
- Configuring Your Network for DHCP
- Understanding DHCP
- DHCP servers
- Understanding scopes
- Feeling excluded?
- Reservations suggested
- How long to lease?
- Managing a Windows Server 2019 DHCP Server
- Configuring a Windows DHCP Client
- Using DNS
- Domains and domain names
- Fully qualified domain names
- Working with the Windows DNS Server
- Configuring a Windows DNS Client
- Chapter 7 Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave: Cables and Switches
- What Is Ethernet?
- All about Cable
- Cable categories
- What's with the pairs?
- To shield or not to shield
- When to use plenum cable
- Sometimes solid, sometimes stranded
- Installation guidelines
- The tools you need
- Pinouts for twisted-pair cables
- RJ-45 connectors
- Crossover cables
- Wall jacks and patch panels
- Understanding Switches
- Comparing managed and unmanaged switches
- Daisy-chaining switches
- Stacking switches
- Looking at distribution switches and access switches
- Powering Up with Power over Ethernet
- Looking at Three Types of Network Rooms
- Chapter 8 Setting Up a Wireless Network
- Diving into Wireless Networking.
- A Little High School Electronics
- Waves and frequencies
- Wavelength and antennas
- Spectrums and the FCC
- Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something: Understanding Wireless Standards
- Home on the Range
- Using Wireless Network Adapters
- Setting Wireless Access Points
- Infrastructure mode
- Multifunction WAPs
- Roaming Capabilities
- Wireless bridging
- Ad-hoc networks
- Configuring a Wireless Access Point
- Basic configuration options
- DHCP configuration
- Connecting to a Wireless Network
- Paying Attention to Wireless Network Security
- Chapter 9 Connecting to the Internet
- Connecting to the Internet
- Connecting with cable or DSL
- Connecting with high-speed private lines
- Sharing an Internet connection
- Securing Your Connection with a Firewall
- Using a firewall
- Comparing residential gateways to firewall routers
- Looking at the built-in Windows firewall
- Providing a Backup Internet Connection
- Part 3 Working with Servers
- Chapter 10 Virtualizing Your Network
- Understanding Virtualization
- Understanding Hypervisors
- Understanding Virtual Disks
- Understanding Network Virtualization
- Looking at the Benefits of Virtualization
- Choosing Virtualization Hosts
- Understanding Windows Server 2019 Licensing
- Introducing Hyper-V
- Understanding the Hyper-V hypervisor
- Understanding virtual disks
- Enabling Hyper-V
- Getting Familiar with Hyper-V
- Creating a Virtual Switch
- Creating a Virtual Disk
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- Installing an Operating System
- Chapter 11 Setting Up a Windows Server
- Planning a Windows Server Installation
- Checking system requirements
- Reading the release notes
- Considering your licensing options
- Deciding your TCP/IP configuration
- Choosing workgroups or domains
- Running Setup
- Adding Server Roles and Features
- Creating a New Domain.
- Chapter 12 Managing Windows User Accounts
- Understanding How Active Directory Is Organized
- Objects
- Domains
- Organizational units
- Trees
- Forests
- Understanding Windows User Accounts
- Local accounts versus domain accounts
- User account properties
- Creating a New User
- Setting User Properties
- Changing the user's contact information
- Setting account options
- Specifying logon hours
- Restricting access to certain computers
- Setting the user's profile information
- Resetting User Passwords
- Disabling and Enabling User Accounts
- Deleting a User
- Working with Groups
- Creating a group
- Adding a member to a group
- Creating a Logon Script
- Chapter 13 Managing Network Storage
- Understanding Disk Storage
- Hard disk drives
- Solid state drives to the rescue!
- It's a RAID!
- Three ways to attach disks to your servers
- Focusing on File Servers
- Understanding permissions
- Understanding shares
- Managing Your File Server
- Using the New Share Wizard
- Sharing a folder without the wizard
- Granting permissions
- Part 4 Managing Your Network
- Chapter 14 Welcome to Network Management
- What a Network Administrator Does
- Choosing the Part-Time Administrator
- The Three "Ups" of Network Management
- Managing Network Users
- Acquiring Software Tools for Network Administrators
- Building a Library
- Pursuing Certification
- Helpful Bluffs and Excuses
- Chapter 15 Supporting Your Users
- Establishing the Help Desk's Charter
- Tracking Support Tickets
- Deciding How to Communicate with Users
- Using Remote Assistance
- Enabling Remote Assistance
- Inviting someone to help you via a Remote Assistance session
- Responding to a Remote Assistance invitation
- Creating a Knowledge Base
- Creating a Self-Service Help Portal
- Using Satisfaction Surveys
- Tracking Help Desk Performance.
- Using Help Desk Management Software
- Chapter 16 Using Group Policy
- Understanding Group Policy
- Enabling Group Policy Management on Windows Server 2019
- Creating Group Policy Objects
- Filtering Group Policy Objects
- Forcing Group Policy Updates
- Chapter 17 Managing Software Deployment
- Understanding Software Licenses
- Using a License Server
- Deploying Network Software
- Deploying software manually
- Running Setup from a network share
- Installing silently
- Creating an administrative installation image
- Pushing out software with Group Policy
- Keeping Software Up to Date
- Chapter 18 Managing Mobile Devices
- The Many Types of Mobile Devices
- Considering Security for Mobile Devices
- Managing iOS Devices
- Understanding the iPhone
- Understanding the iPad
- Integrating iOS devices with Exchange
- Configuring an iOS device for Exchange email
- Managing Android Devices
- Looking at the Android OS
- Perusing Android's core applications
- Integrating Android with Exchange
- Part 5 Securing Your Network
- Chapter 19 Welcome to Cybersecurity Network
- Do You Need Security?
- The Three Pillars of Cybersecurity
- Two Approaches to Security
- Physical Security: Locking Your Doors
- Securing User Accounts
- Obfuscating your usernames
- Using passwords wisely
- Generating passwords For Dummies
- Secure the Administrator account
- Managing User Security
- User accounts
- Built-in accounts
- User rights
- Permissions (who gets what)
- Group therapy
- User profiles
- Logon scripts
- Securing the Human Firewall
- Chapter 20 Hardening Your Network
- Firewalls
- The Many Types of Firewalls
- Packet filtering
- Stateful packet inspection (SPI)
- Circuit-level gateway
- Application gateway
- Next-generation firewall
- Virus Protection
- What is a virus?
- Antivirus programs
- Safe computing.
- Patching Things Up.
