Server Administration - Services
In a Nutshell - CIW Course Section 3, Part B1
This begins by looking, in some detail, at DNS in Windows 2000. DNS in Linux is touched upon but, only in a very cursory manner. This is probably of no help to CIW students, but most of this section is made very much easier if you have a Windows 2000 server you can mess about with.
I am fortunate in having a server I could use to set-up as a secondary DNS server, add and delete forward and reverse lookup zones and observe how changes propagated from the main DNS server. I was able to configure WINS and take the screen-shots I have used here.
Samba and SWAT were the two things I could not test directly as I don't have a Unix or Linux machine. I believe Linux can run on a fairly low-spec machine and is available for free download, so it shouldn't be to difficult to try and set a Linux machine up. Allegedly, I am a Solaris Administrator, but this was so long ago, I think I would struggle to configure Linux.
Chapter Headings
As I have done with the other sections, the navigation links, to the left, are somewhat abbreviated so I have included the full chapter titles here:
- Chapter 1 - Windows 2000 DNS Server
- Chapter 2 - Configuring DNS in Windows NT Server 4.0
- Chapter 3 - Propagating Changes in Windows 2000
- Chapter 4 - Implementing DNS in Linux
- Chapter 5 - NetBIOS
- Chapter 6 - Managing WINS
- Chapter 7 - Samba
- Chapter 8 - Introduction to FTP
- Chapter 9 - Virtual FTP Servers
- Chapter 10 - FTP Access
- Chapter 11 - Telnet
- Chapter 12 - xinetd
One of the few things I haven't set up and tested for myself was an FTP server or a virtual FTP server. These should be relatively easy to do, but not so simple to test. I would have needed to set-up a stand-alone machine which would dial-up to the Internet and then FTP back into my own network.