NetWare System Administration

This course introduces the new network system administrator to the required competencies of managing a Novell NetWare local area network (LAN). The course will be conducted using a multi-access Novell NetWare LAN. Users will practice Logins, Logouts, Security and File Access Changes, Adding and Removing Users, and other network management and overview operations.

Prerequisite: Hard Disk Management Advanced DOS (recommended)

Outline:

Introduction To Novell NetWare

• What is a network
  
• Essential network components
  
• Network peripherals
  
• A description of our network
  

  Logging In And Out

• Why you have to log in
  
• How to log in
  
• Manually logging in
  
• Batch files and login scripts
  
• A basic display
  
• Logging in to more than one file server at the same time
  
• How to change your password
  
• Voluntary password change
  
• Logging out
  
• Logging out from a menu
  

  Network Restrictions

• Login restrictions
  
• Viewing network restrictions
  
• Description of restrictions
  
• Disk and volume restrictions
  
• NDIR command
  

  Directories And Files

• Directory structures
  
• A sample directory structure
  
• Directory paths
  
• Getting an overview of the directory tree
  NetWare Security
  
• Viewing your effective rights
  
• Checking your effective rights
  
• How your effective rights are determined
  
• Trustee rights
  
• Inherited rights masks
  
• Maximum rights masks
  
• Looking at trustee assignments
  
• Security attributes
  
• Moving up and down the directory tree
  
• Drive mappings
  
• Search drive mappings
  
• Looking at files
  
• Copying files
  
• Deleting and renaming files
  
• Backing up and restoring files
  
• Salvaging files
  
• Purging files
  
• Printing files
  
• Working with directories
  
• Ideas for creating your own directory structures
  
• Creating a directory
  
• Setting up drive mappings
  
• Saving mappings in login scripts
  
• Setting security
  

  Command Line Utilities Reference

• Allow
  
• Attach
  
• Capture
  
• Castoff
  
• Caston
  
• CD
  
• Chkvol
  
• Del
  
• Dir
  
• Flag
  
• Flagdir
  
• Grant
  
• Listdir
  
• Login
  
• Logout
  
• Map
  
• MD
  
• Ncopy
  
• Ndir
  
• Nprint
  
• Purge
  
• Rd
  
• Remove
  
• Ren
  
• Rendir
  
• Revoke
  
• Rights
  
• Send
  
• Setpass
  
• Slist
  
• Systime
  
• Tlist
  
• Userlist
  
• Whoami
  

  Filer Tasks

• View directory information
  
• Change directory attributes
  
• Directory attributes lists
  
• Change inherited rights mask
  
• View/Change directory trustees
  
• View a directory's files and subdirectories
  
• Delete a file
  
• Rename a file
  
• Copy a file
  
• Move a file
  
• View a file's contents
  
• View a file's information
  
• File attributes lists
  
• Create a directory
  
• Delete a directory
  
• Rename a directory
  
• Copy all of a subdirectory's files
  
• Copy subdirectory's structure
  
• Make this your current directory
  
• Select current directory
  
• Set filer options
  
• See volume information
  

  NDIR Tasks

• List a directory's subdirectories and files
  
• Ndir options
  

  Pconsole Tasks

• List print queues and print jobs
  
• Print a file
  
• Print job parameters
  
• Delete a print job
  
• Change order of print jobs
  
• Place a hold on a print job
  
• View a print queue's status
  

  Salvage Tasks

• Salvaging files
  

  Session Tasks

• Change your current server
  
• View/set drive mappings
  
• Send a message to a group
  
• View/set search drive mappings
  
• Select default drive
  
• Send a message to a user
  

  Syscon Tasks

• Change your current server
  
• List groups
  
• See a groups full name
  
• See a group's managed users and groups
  
• See a group's managers
  
• See members of a group
  
• See group trustee directory assignments
  
• See group trustee file assignments
  
• See your account balance
  
• See your account restrictions
  
• Change your password
  
• See your full name
  
• See the groups that you belong to
  
• See your managed users and groups
  
• See a user's managers
  
• See security equivalences
  
• See station restrictions
  
• See time restrictions
  
• See your trustee directory assignments
  
• See your trustee file assignments
  
• See volume restrictions
  

  Login Scripts

• System login script
  
• User login script
  
• Default login script
  

  Login Script Commands

• Write
  
• Map
  
• DOS set
  
• Comspec
  
• If..then
  
• Exit "..."
  
• Remark
  
• Fdisplay
  
• Fire phasers #
  
• Map display
  
• Map errors
  

  Login Script Variables

• Login_name
  
• Full_name
  
• Station
  
• P_station
  
• Day_of_week
  
• Hour
  
• Hour24
  
• Minute
  
• AM_PM
  
• Greeting_time
  
• %1...%9
  
• Member of
  

  Sample Menu File

  Menus

• Creating custom menus
  
• Controlling user access
  

  Third-Party Utilities

• Public Domain
  
• Ted
  
• Check
  

  Commercial

• LAN Assist
  
• Map Assist
  
• Norton Commander
  

  Network Maintenance

  Adding New Applications

• Network applications
  
• Non-network applications
  

  Problem Solving I

• Hardware
  

  Problem Solving II

• Computer problem log
  

  Gateways, Bridges, And Modems

• Gateways
  
• Bridges
  
• Remote call in
  

  User Questions And Situations

• Novell help
  
• User groups
  
• CompuServe
  
• America Online
  
• Common problems
  

  Practical Exercise I

  Practical Exercise II

  Sample Login Script

  Sample System Menu

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