Perfect for system administrators, network architects, or anyone responsible for setting up and maintaining a medium to large scale NT network. This title covers enterprise specific material, such as DHCP and IP management--plus UNIX, Novell NetWare, and Macintosh networking techniques. The CD-ROM includes Microsoft and third party tools and utilities.

Successful enterprise networking with NT is complex at best. Administrators need higher-level information than most books provide. This title contains unparalleled coverage of advanced NT technologies, including server clustering, Citrix WinFrame, and routing on NT Server.

Totally revised and updated, the third edition of the classic guide to networking WindowsR(r) NT 4.O Now, the book long regarded as the single best resource for network managers on both the workstation and server versions of Windows NT has been completely revised and updated. This indispensable guide tells you absolutely everything you need to know to plan, build, manage, troubleshoot, expand, and develop NT-based corporate networks with Windows NT 4.0. If you're a network administrator looking to connect an NT component to a UNIX or NetWare system, someone making that all-important decision between NT Server and NT Workstation, or simply a network manager updating to 4.0, Networking Windows NT 4.0: Workstation and Server is the single resource you need to do it all. You'll find important information on: * Using NT networking; connecting with TCP/IP; and utilizing Internet enterprise and Novell connections * Installing and managing NT Server and Workstation * Administering and interoperating with TCP/IP * Planning and managing NT-based local-area, wide-area, and enterprise wide-area networks * All of the updated features of 4.0, including dynamic DNS support, NetWare redirector, remote-access support, universal modem driver, telephony API, and crypto API. Plus, you'll find an entire chapter devoted to new Internet-related features like IIS (Internet Information Server), 4.0's built-in Web server, and the new peer Web server PPTP, which allows you to use the Internet like a private network.

An extremely readable hands-on guide to Windows NT, this introduction to NT focuses on networking concepts inherent in this new operating system. Step-by-step instructions explain how to port NT to each existing workstation in a network. Describes multiple possible configurations of Windows NT in a corporate network environment.

This is billed as the only book on the market to introduce techniques of network analysis and optimization familiar only to users of other enterprise operating systems. Special features include four new chapters and 200 pages of expanded content to cover Active Directory, migrating from Win 9x to Win 2000, and working in a mixed NOS environment. Network Blueprints are printed on blue paper with handy visual references that show optimal network configurations for enterprises of varying sizes.

Windows NT Networking for Dummies is the latest in a series of books that provide beginners with a practical, jargon-free introductory guide to a range of products and applications in the computer world

Microsoft NT Server is gaining ground as a corporate 32-bit networking alternative to Novell and UNIX. Based around the popular Windows interface, NT Server 3.5 is a significant revision to the original product, creating a sleeker, easier, and almost uncrashable network. Here is the first guide that shows how to make NT work in an enterprise network.

This volume covers the administration of the whole spectrum of possible Windows NT configurations -- from a single machine to a 2,000 node heterogeneous network within a large corporation -- showing readers how to use the administration tools and networking abilities built into Windows NT to design and implement effective computing environments. KEY TOPICS: Covers the administrative tools shipped with Windows NT; explains how to connect NT machines to a network, how to share hard disks over the net, how to install and share printers, how to create and manage an email post office for the network, and how to handle dedicated disk servers and user domains; discusses how to integrate NT into a heterogeneous network, how to use NT to communicate with different machines, and how to use NT to access other facilities on the network. For owners of single NT systems, the "computer person" in a small business or department; an administrator in a large company planning to build a large NT network from scratch; an administrator in a large company planning to integrate NT into an existing network; or a new administrator who has inherited a NT network of some type.

Networking is at the heart of corporate computing, and likewise, advanced networking functions are built into NT. This book covers all the aspects of Windows NT Networking, from equipment selection and network planning to client/server computing--all the practical information the network and IT manager needs to know in order to purchase, implement, and manage a corporation.

Written by an all-star cast of writers and editors from Windows Magazine, this comprehensive book covers how to design, use and manage the Windows N T's built-in advanced networking functions, including the capability to link non-NT machines to the NT network.