UNIX networking course description
A course covering the complete range of standard UNIX networking products from the basic TCP/IP configuration through DNS, NIS, NFS and Samba. Hands-on exercises follow most theory sessions.
Who will benefit?
System Administrators.
Network Administrators.
Support personnel including pre sales
UNIX training course prerequisites
UNIX fundamentals
UNIX training course objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Describe TCP/IP, Apache, DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, Samba and sendmail.
- Configure and administrate TCP/IP.
- Install and administrate a DNS server.
- Configure and administrate a NIS+ network.
- Administrate NFS.
- Setup a sendmail server.
Duration: 5 days
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UNIX networking course contents
Introduction
Overview, Network basics, protocols, daemons, servers and clients, 7 layer model.
TCP/IP
What is TCP/IP? The Internet, RFCs. ping, hostnames, IP addresses, subnetting, ifconfig, /etc/hosts.
Base services
ftp, rcp, telnet, rlogin, rsh, talk, trust, /etc/hosts.equiv, .rhosts. Clients and daemons, inetd, xinetd. The TCP/IP startup process, rc2.d, rc5.d, Various other utilities, finger.
Diagnostics and troubleshooting
A methodology, Important files, Standard tools, netstat.
TCP/IP specialised protocols
DHCP, PPP, SNMP, routed
Apache
Setting up a basic web server.
DNS
What is DNS?, How does it work? Server setup, client setup.
DNS and growth
Maintenance, numberof nameservers, subdomains, Parenting.
Troubleshooting DNS
nslookup, implications for hosts.equiv... Working with NIS, debugging output.
NIS and NIS+
What is NIS and NIS+, How NIS+ works, Server configuration, Client configuration, maintaining the NIS+ namespace. NIS+ troubleshooting.
NFS
What is NFS? How it works, exports and mounts, network security, performance tuning, the automounter, RPC, NFS daemons
Sendmail
What is sendmail? terminology, mail addressing, setting up a mail server, setting up a mail client, the sendmail.cf file, sendmail.mc file, setting up a mail host, setting up a relay host.
Other areas
Integrating UNIX with Microsoft products, Samba, the X Window system.
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