Overview:
This course builds on what you learnt in Course 045: Linux and UNIX Fundamentals and Course 046: Linux and UNIX Shell Scripting. You will gain hands-on experience performing various tasks that allow integration of services with Microsoft Windows based systems. In particular, cooperating with Windows Active Directory, Printing, File sharing and Email services is dealt with in detail.
Learning Method:
This course uses a combination of instructor presentation, facilitated group discussion and practical exercises. Each attendee will be provided with a set of course notes and will have the opportunity to accumulate significant hands-on experience and apply what you have learned in practical exercises throughout the course.
Who will benefit from this course?
This course will be useful for programmers working in a UNIX (or Linux) environment and UNIX or Linux system administrators, where the skills needed to interoperate Unix with Microsoft Windows are of importance.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course you must have completed:
- Course 045: Linux and Unix Fundamentals
- Course 046: Linux and Unix Shell Scripting
or have equivalent knowledge.
It is expected that you will be familiar with UNIX basic commands and system installation.
What can you expect to gain from this course?
After completing this course you will understand:
- Installation and Testing1
- Software Deployment & Advanced Network Configuration
- Network Resource Sharing & MS Windows Integration
- Mail, Printing & Windows Integration
- Directory Services & Windows Integration
- Trouble shooting
Course Content:
Module 1:Installation and Testing
- Installation Fedora core 6
- Configuration using GUI and Command line
- IP commands
- Basic Ip
- DNS
- DHCP-server setup and testing, DHCP client configuration
- Naming
- Network Testing
- Net commands
Module 2:Software Deployment & Advanced Network Configuration
- Installing Software via RPM, Non RPM, YUM, UP2DATE
- File system security
- Find files
- Commands
- Extended file system security
- User details using SUID and GUID
- Disk Quota management
- Routing and NAT
- Web Proxying using SQUID
Module 3:Network Resource Sharing & MS Windows Integration
- Routing cont static, dynamic.
- NFS
- RPCinfo
- Exportfs
- Set up directories and check file system security
- Mount points
- Samba
- Unix to Windows resource access
- Windows to Unix resource access
- Configuring shares
- Apache install
- Virtual servers
Module 4:Mail, Printing, Directory Services & MS Windows Integration
- Mail servers - Sendmail, Postfix - install and configure
- Mail client - Microsoft Outlook
- Printing - Ipp, CUPS
- Setup Using web and remote Printserver (3rd Party)
- Print Share with Windows and consuming Windows printers in Linux
- LDAP - Describe LDIF files and structure
- Integration with Active directory / Workgroup
- Set up Acme company and test login
- Security - Iptables, firewalling
- Putty - secure remote admin
Module 5:Trouble shooting
- Failed install
- Grub-Lilo loaders rescue mode
- Init levels and failed config files
- Hardware trouble shooting disks, sound cards, video, mouse and keyboard faults
- USB devices, wireless connections.
- Updating and finding device drivers
- Trouble shooting internal services
- Log files
- Printing
- NFS
- Processes
- Server performance monitoring