Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies

Introduction

About This Book

How to Use This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Typing text

Navigating menus

Haggling with command syntax

Three Enormous Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Introducing Windows 2000 Networking

Part II: The Wonder of Workgroups

Part III: Bringing Up Windows 2000 Server

Part IV: Networking Windows 2000 Server

Part V: Managing a Windows 2000 Server Network

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Introducing Windows 2000 Networking

Chapter 1: All in the Family -- Introducing Windows 2000

Chapter 2: Installing Windows 2000 Server

Chapter 3: Working with NICs and Other Hardware

Part II: The Wonder of Workgroups

Chapter 4: Networking: Workgroups versus Server-Based

Chapter 5: Getting the Most out of Peer Workgroups

Part III: Bringing Up Windows 2000 Server

Chapter 6: Protocols Schmotocols

Chapter 7: Introducing Active Directory

Chapter 8: Working with Domains, Replication, and Trusts

Chapter 9: Selecting a File System in Windows 2000

Part IV: Networking Windows 2000 Server

Chapter 10: Connecting Your Windows 2000 Network

Chapter 11: Making Windows 2000 Server Communicate on a Network

Chapter 12: What's in a Name?

Chapter 13: DNS for Everyone!

Chapter 14: You WINS!

Chapter 15: Playing the (IP) Numbers with DHCP

Chapter 16: Network Security: It's Not a Game!

Chapter 17: Securing Your Network

Chapter 18: Getting Network Access Remotely

Chapter 19: What's the Route?

Part V: Managing a Windows 2000 Server Network

Chapter 20: Mysteries of Windows 2000 Configuration

Chapter 21: Hard Copies: Printing in the Windows 2000 Environment

Chapter 22: A Little Performance Review

Chapter 23: Got Your Backup against the Wall?

Chapter 24: Keeping Those Users Humming

Chapter 25: Looking into the IntelliMirror

Chapter 26: "Sorry, Ma'am, These Services Are

Ed Tittel is a grizzled veteran of the publishing game, with several hundred magazine articles and over 85 books to his credit. Ed has worked on five other... For Dummies books that vary from HTML 4 For Dummies (the fourth iteration on this subject, with Stephen N. James as his coauthor) to Networking with NetWare For Dummies, 4th edition (with James Gaskin and David Johnson), and other topics. Ed also presides over a small Austin, Texas­based consulting company, LANWrights, Inc., that specializes in network-oriented training, writing, and consulting. In his spare time, Ed likes to shoot pool, cook chicken stock, and harass his growing young Labrador pup, Blackie (or is it the other way 'round?).