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NET 488 - Netware 4.x Administration

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech
Course covers the knowledge and skills needed to perform Netware 4.x network administration or system management tasks effectively.
Competencies
  1. Connect a DOS workstation to the network and log in
    1. Describe the basic functions and services of a network
    2. Describe workstation communications with the network, and list the files required to connect a DOS workstation to the network
    3. Describe the function of the software necessary to connect a workstation to the network, including local operating systems, NetWare DOS Requester, communications protocol, and network board
    4. Connect a workstation to the network by loading the appropriate DOS workstation files
  2. Utilize NetWare utilities
    1. Identify, navigate, and perform similar basic functions using a graphical utility, a DOS text utility, and a command line utility
    2. Activate and navigate Help for each type of utility
    3. Activate and navigate Novell Electro Text
  3. Manage NetWare Directory Services
    1. Describe NetWare 4.X Directory Services (NDS) and the NDS database
    2. Describe NDS objects, properties, and values
    3. Describe the Directory tree
    4. Create, delete, rename, and move objects within the NDS database
    5. Enter and modify property values of objects
    6. Set up network user accounts
  4. Access Network Resources with NDS
    1. Define NDS context and current context
    2. Demonstrate correct NDS object naming
    3. Access NDS information from the command prompt using NLIST and CX
    4. Search NDS information using the NetWare Administrator 1
  5. Plan File Systems
    1. Explain the basic concepts of network file storage, including volumes and directory structure
    2. Define a directory, including its main function, tree structure, directory name, and path
    3. List the system-created directories on the SYS: volume and describe their contents
    4. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of sample directory structures
    5. Design a directory structure based on a given scenario
  6. Manage Network File Storage
    1. Access file storage by mapping network drives to volumes and directories
    2. Navigate volumes and directories by using network drives
    3. Access network applications by mapping search drives to application directories
    4. Perform directory management tasks, such as creating, deleting, and renaming directories
    5. Perform file management tasks such as copying, moving, deleting, salvaging and purging files
  7. Implement Network File System Security
    1. Identify the levels and functions of network security
    2. Plan file system security using groups, users, directory rights, file rights, and Inheritance Rights Filters
    3. Describe directory and file attributes and their use in a file system security plan
    4. Implement a file system security plan using NetWare Administrator
  8. Implement NetWare Directory Services Security
    1. Explain NetWare Directory Services access control including the concepts of trustees, object and property rights, inheritance, IRF, and effective rights
    2. Plan NetWare Directory Services access control security using roups, users, object rights, property rights, and Inheritance Rights filters
    3. Implement NetWare Directory Services access control by adding and removing a trustee, adding and removing object and property rights, and setting and IRF
    4. List, define, and set up user account login restrictions 
  9. Manage the NetWare 4.x Server
    1. Describe console commands and identify the function of command commonly used by network administrators
    2. Describe NLM’s, how they are loaded, and their types
    3. Identify the purpose and function of the major management NLM’s, such as INSTALL, MONITOR, SERVER MANAGER, and UPS
    4. Describe remote console management, list the steps to setting up the server for both SPX and asynchronous remote connects, use RCONSOLE.EXE to connect remotely to the server
    5. Implement console security features on the server by assigning a console passwork and keeping the server in a secure location
  10. Set up printing services on a NetWare 4.X network
    1. Describe the basic components of network printing, how they interrelate in processing a print job, and the general steps to their setup
    2. Create and configure the NetWare Directory Services network printing objects:
    3. Set up network printing hardware by bringing up a print server on a NetWare server and connecting a printer to the network through a NetWare server and DOS workstation Print Queue, Printer, and Print Server
    4. Manage print jobs in the print queue by viewing their properties, pausing, rushing, delaying printing and deleting jobs in the queue



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