This book includes the following chapters.
Chapter 1, "Windows NT Networking Architecture," describes the layered networking architecture built into Windows NT, and how it fits into the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model. It also describes the Windows NT transfer protocols, distributed processing, the distributed component object model (DCOM), network resource access, workstation and server services, services for Macintosh, and the Remote Access Service (RAS).
Chapter 2, "Network Security and Domain Planning," describes the security model built into Windows NT. It also introduces the security architecture and how the features work over the network domain structure to provide a secure network. The chapter concludes with extensive and detailed advice for planning a domain structure (including a description of the Microsoft corporate domain model), and a section on troubleshooting security problems.
Chapter 3, "Windows NT Browser Service," describes the browser service built into Windows NT. It presents the different types of browser computers, and tells how Windows NT ensures that the browse list (the visual display of all available network devices) is always accessible. The chapter also describes how to select computers to be browsers and how browsing across a wide area network (WAN) is handled.
Chapter 4, "Terra Flora: A Fictitious Case Study," introduces Terra Flora corporation, a fictitious international floral company, and gives background information about the corporation. This corporation will be used to illustrate the ability of heterogeneous networks to operate together using Windows NT Server. The networking model that Terra Flora Corporation will implement, as shown in the network diagram on the inside back cover of this book, contains four levels of server services and provides a brief introduction to the levels and services offered at each level.
Chapter 5, "Network Services: Enterprise Level," presents various decisions Terra Flora had to make about its network and explains the procedures for implementing and configuring those choices. These issues include their network protocol standard, addressing, logons, centralized services, backups, and connecting to the Internet and remote access.
Chapter 6, "TCP/IP Implementation Details," provides additional detail about the architecture of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), including information about TCP/IP advanced configuration options and descriptions of the client/server services that make it easier to administer TCP/IP networks.
Chapter 7, "Managing Microsoft DHCP Servers," describes the client/server architecture of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and planning for DHCP server installation, managing the DHCP database, and troubleshooting DHCP service problems.
Chapter 8, "Managing Microsoft WINS Servers," describes the architecture of the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)¾an RFC-compliant NetBIOS name server for TCP/IP networks, and discusses planning for WINS server implementation.
Chapter 9, "Managing Microsoft DNS Servers," describes the Domain Name System and Microsoft DNS Server, and includes information on the implementation of domain, zone, and Microsoft DNS server and client concepts; planning issues for DNS, WINS, and Internet security; and using DNS Manager to configure and manage Microsoft DNS Server.
Chapter 10, "Using LMHOSTS Files," provides information about the LMHOSTS file that contains static mappings of "friendly" NetBIOS computer names to IP addresses to enable computers to locate resources on the Internet or on routed TCP/IP intranets.
Chapter 11, "Using SNMP for Network Management," describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) of the TCP/IP protocol suite and its implementation under Windows NT.
Chapter 12, "Troubleshooting Tools and Strategies," presents information about the TCP/IP programs that are used specifically for connectivity troubleshooting on TCP/IP-based intranets.
Chapter 13, "Using NetBEUI with Windows NT," describes the implementation of the NetBEUI transport under Windows NT for administrators and support personnel who support legacy networks (LANS) using the NetBEUI protocol.
Chapter 14, "Using DLC with Windows NT," provides information about the Data Link Control (DLC) protocol under Windows NT, which provides connectivity to IBM mainframes and to LAN printers attached directly to the network.
Chapter 15, "Remoteboot," explains how a computer running Windows NT Server can start client computers (MS-DOS®, Microsoft Windows® 3.1, and Microsoft Windows 95) over the network.
Chapter 16, "Microsoft Network Client Version 3.0 for MS-DOS," describes how to install, use, and troubleshoot Microsoft Network Client version 3.0 for MS-DOS. Network Client is software that you install on a computer running the MS-DOS operating system so that the computer can use resources on a network.
Appendix A, "TCP/IP Utilities Reference," provides a listing and description of the TCP/IP programs and commands that are supported by Windows NT for intranet and Internet troubleshooting and connectivity.
Appendix B, "Port Reference for Microsoft TCP/IP," describes the well-known and registered port assignments that are supported by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT.
Appendix C, "MIB Object Types for Windows NT," provides listings of the SNMP managed-objects implemented in Windows NT.
Appendix D, "Windows Sockets," is primarily for the developer. This appendix provides information about using Windows Sockets and developing Windows Sockets programs for Windows NT.
Appendix E, "RAS Reference," provides an overview of the most important modem compatibility standards and how they work within the Remote Access Service (RAS). This appendix also presents a series of quick-reference charts to give you a high-level perspective on how RAS works during a call to a Windows NT RAS server, and reference tables for RAS server and client computers that detail the different versions of RAS and the features they support.
Appendix F, "Routers and Switches," provides an overview of routing and switching technologies, descriptions of the routing and switching equipment selected and installed at Terra Flora, and the technical and business reasons for those choices.
Appendix G, "NetBIOS Names," lists the 16th character of a NetBIOS computer name that uniquely identifies the networking client service, such as workstation or browser. The 16th character is recognized and used in WINS and LMHOSTS name resolution services.
Index to this Windows NT Server Networking Guide.