Intro to Linux

1. Networking Challenges

• Turn off your firewall to eliminate some obstacles in the following exercises.
  
  
• Go to the Internet and Network Options. Examine the settings for File Sharing and
  Local Network Browsing. See if you can configure the LISA Daemon to allow
  you to drag files from a VNC desktop over the network to your local computer.
  
  
• See if you can configure your computer to allow basic Samba client functionality
  from a GUI Konqueror window and from a Terminal command line.
  
  

1. The command to make a Samba connection from a terminal session is ____________
   
   

2. Intro to Networking (See Chapter 20)

a. Electronic information is sent from computer to computer
with these cards through a seven-layer system called ____________. (See Jang, p.610 and
this section of the MCMCSE Network + Study Guide.)

OSI stands for ______________________________. Try this OSI practice test.

b. The TCP/IP model for networking includes ___ layers. (See Jang, p. 613).

Major protocols that work under the TCP/IP model include ____, _____,

_____, _____, _____. (See Jang, p. 614 for a more complete list.)

What are the TCP/IP transport-level protocols? _____ ______

What are the TCP/IP network-level protocols? _____ ______

What are the TCP/IP link-level protocols? _____ ______ ______ ______

(See this link for more information.)

c. Define these TCP/IP network services:

Domain Name System: ____________________________________________

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ________________________________

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Address Resolution Protocol _______________________________________

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d. Tp set up a computer on a TCP/IP network, you need ___________

(manually assigned by an administrator or automatically assigned by ____,

a ______ address and a ___________. Additionally, to connect to sites on

the Internet, you need ___________.

The current standard in use for IP addressing is called ____. IP addresses can

be expressed in two formats ___________ and __________.

Addresses under this standard are expressed in ___ columns with
numerical values between __ and ____.

e. IP addresses are divided into ___ classes. (See Jang, p. 618.

What class do the addresses on our classroom computers belong to? _____

Do the classroom computers use public or private addresses? _______

How would you write the IP address of your classroom computer in binary notation?

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f. Experiment with PING and IFCONFIG commands. Change your adapter's IP address. Check
the graphic redhat-config-network application and see if the change carries over.

Stop and restart the network using the Service [servicename] command.

After making sure that your Sendmail server is disabled, change the hostname of
your computer, in preparation for the next set of exercises.

Review network mask settings (see Jang, p. 629).

3. Installation/exploration of Mandrake Linux