Networking for dummies

✍ Scribed by Doug Lowe

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: -For dummies
• Edition: 9th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explains how to set up and use a small network, covering such topics as making a network plan, dealing with TCP/IP, setting up a server, wireless networking, connecting a network to the Internet, dealing with mobile devices, and securing a network. Introduction. Part I: Let's Network! Chapter 1: Networks Will Not Take Over the World, and Other Network Basics. Chapter 2: Life on the Network. Chapter 3: More Ways to Use Your Network. Part II: Building Your Own Network. Chapter 4: Planning Your Network. Chapter 5: Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave: Cables, Adapters, and Other Stuff. Chapter 6: Dealing with TCP/IP. Chapter 7: Setting Up a Server. Chapter 8: Confi guring Windows XP, Vista, and 7 Clients. Chapter 9: Wireless Networking. Part III: Getting Connected. Chapter 10: Connecting Your Network to the Internet. Chapter 11: Managing E-Mail with Exchange 2007. Chapter 12: Creating an Intranet. Chapter 13: Is It a Phone or a Computer? (Or, Understanding VoIP and Convergence). Chapter 14: Dealing with Mobile Devices. Chapter 15: Connecting from Home. Part IV: Network Management For Dummies. Chapter 16: Welcome to Network Management. Chapter 17: Managing Windows User Accounts. Chapter 18: Managing Network Storage. Chapter 19: Network Performance Anxiety. Chapter 20: Solving Network Problems. Chapter 21: How to Stay on Top of Your Network and Keep Its Users Off Your Back. Part V: Protecting Your Network. Chapter 22: Backing Up Your Data. Chapter 23: Securing Your Network. Chapter 24: Hardening Your Network. Part VI: Beyond Windows. Chapter 25: Networking with Linux. Chapter 26: Macintosh Networking. Part VII: The Part of Tens. Chapter 27: More Than Ten Big Network Mistakes. Chapter 28: Ten Networking Commandments. Chapter 29: Ten Things You Should Keep in Your Closet. Chapter 30: Layers of the OSI Model. Index