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Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide

by Lathrop, John P.

ISBN13: 9781893115460
ISBN10: 1893115461
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2002-03-01
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

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Summary

Employing A Practical, Hands-On approach, Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide author John Lathrop guides the reader through a multitude of scenarios commonplace in a real-world corporate environment. Eschewing evangelism, Lathrop instead presents real Linux solutions that reduce software purchases, enhance stability, and lower the costs of maintenance and hardware upgrades. Precursory material includes instruction regarding the installation, configuration, and basic operation of Red Hat 7.2, the latest version of the leading Linux distribution. Readers are then guided through a series of practical lessons covering networking (particularly in a heterogeneous Linux/Windows environment), databases, the use of popular office products such as StarOffice, and basic system administration. Tackling many of these issues from the perspective of a native Windows user, newcomers to Linux will have no problem following the lessons.

About the Author

About the Technical Reviewer

xvi

Acknowledgments

xvii

Preface

xviii

Introduction

(10)

Who Should Read This Book

(1)

Navigating This Book

(1)

Presentation Plan

(1)

Linux Benefits

(2)

Open Source Software

(2)

The Greening of Linux

(2)

The State of Linux Today (and Tomorrow)

(2)

Installation

(24)

The Different Flavors of Linux and the Linux Desktop

(4)

Linux Distributions

(3)

Linux Desktops

(1)

Obtaining Linux Preinstalled

(2)

Dell

(1)

Compaq

(1)

QLI Tech Linux Computers

(1)

Lesson Review

(1)

Installing Linux Yourself

(17)

Which Section to Read First

(2)

Installing Red Hat 7.2 in Detail

(11)

Disk Partitioning Guide

(3)

Lesson Review

(1)

What's to Come

(1)

An Introduction to Linux and the Desktop

(26)

Logging In, Starting the Desktop, and Shutting Down

(3)

Initial Configuration with Setup at the Command Line

(2)

Accessing CDs and Floppies from the Desktop and from the Terminal

(2)

Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies

(1)

Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies from a Terminal

(1)

Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies from GNOME

(1)

An Introduction to the Linux Desktop

(15)

The Main Menu Structure and Window Controls

(4)

The Panel, the Pager, and the Linux Desktop Paradigm

(3)

Customizing the Panel and Its Applets

(3)

Desktop and Panel Icons and Applications

(3)

Floppy Disks and CDs: A Simple Scenario

(2)

Lesson Review

(1)

What's to Come

(2)

Connecting to the Internet

(16)

Configuring New Networking Hardware

(2)

Configuring Dial-up Internet Access

(4)

Connecting to the Internet the Easy Way: Using the PPP Dialer

(1)

Configuring DSL and Cable Internet Access

(9)

Cable Setup

(1)

DSL Setup: An Introduction

(1)

Setting Up DSL: Bridged, Dynamic IP

(2)

Setting Up DSL: Bridged, Static IP

(2)

Setting Up DSL: PPPoE Dynamic IP

(2)

Setting Up DSL: PPPoE Static IP

(1)

Lesson Review

(1)

What's to Come

(1)

Laying the Foundations: Linux As a LAN Server

(40)

Presentation

(1)

The Scenario

(4)

Hardware and Addresses

(9)

Hardware Connections

(4)

Computer (IP) Addresses

(3)

The Scenario

(1)

Lesson 5-1 Review

(1)

Setting Up a Dynamic Server and Clients

(16)

Server Configuration

(11)

Linux Client Configuration

103

(1)

Windows 2000 Client Configuration

104

(2)

Windows 98 Client Configuration

106

(1)

Testing the Connection

106

(1)

Lesson 5-2 Review

107

(1)

Setting Up a Domain Name System Server for the LAN

107

(8)

What a DNS Server Does

107

(1)

Configuring a DNS Server for Development, Ltd.

108

(4)

Client Configuration

112

(2)

Starting DNS

114

(1)

Testing the Connection

114

(1)

Lesson 5-3 Review

114

(1)

What's to Come

115

(2)

Linux As an Internet, File/Print, E-mail, Web, and Application Server

117

(58)

Setting Up an Internet Server for the LAN

120

(5)

Server Configuration

120

(2)

Linux Client Setup

122

(1)

Windows 2000 Client Setup

123

(1)

Windows 98 Client Configuration

124

(1)

Testing the Connection

125

(1)

Lesson 6-1 Review

125

(1)

Setting Up a File Server

125

(21)

The Design Stage

126

(2)

Users, Groups, and Permissions

128

(10)

Section Review

138

(1)

Connecting Linux Clients to the Server with NFS

139

(3)

Connecting Windows Clients to the Server with Samba

142

(4)

Using NETFS to Remount Shared Directories

146

(1)

Section Review

146

(1)

Setting Up a Print Server

146

(5)

A Linux Print Server

147

(2)

A Windows Print Server

149

(1)

The Scenario

150

(1)

Lesson 6-3 Review

151

(1)

Setting Up an Internal E-mail Server

151

(5)

Setting Up a Linux E-mail Server

151

(2)

Configuring Netscape Communicator 4.78 in Linux

153

(2)

Configuring Microsoft Outlook in Windows

155

(1)

Lesson 6-4 Review

156

(1)

Setting Up a Local Web and Database Server

156

(7)

The Apache Web Server

156

(7)

Lesson 6-5 Review

163

(1)

Adopting Postgres

163

(11)

How a Small Business Can Adopt Postgres

164

(1)

Installing and Using pgAdmin

165

(6)

PgAccess

171

(2)

phpPgAdmin

173

(1)

Lesson 6-6 Review

174

(1)

What's to Come

174

(1)

Serving a Web Site and Mail to the Internet

175

(10)

Self-Hosting or Contracting Out?

175

(2)

Type of Site and Expected Traffic

175

(1)

Security

176

(1)

Administrative and Technical Issues

177

(6)

A Static Address

177

(1)

Registering a Domain Name

178

(1)

Obtaining or Creating a Nameserver

179

(1)

E-mail Relaying

179

(1)

Security

180

(3)

Chapter Review

183

(1)

Conclusions on Self-Hosting a Web Site and E-mail

183

(1)

What's to Come

184

(1)

Linux As a Workstation Solution

185

(54)

Setting Up E-mail and the Web Browser

187

(6)

Configuring Netscape Communicator E-mail

188

(4)

Configuring Netscape Navigator

192

(1)

Installing and Setting Up Office Applications

193

(6)

Downloading and Installing StarOffice

195

(3)

Initial StarOffice Configuration

198

(1)

Setting Up a Linux Workstation Printer

199

(3)

Setting Up a Printer in StarOffice

201

(1)

Lesson Review

202

(1)

Word Processing in StarOffice Writer

202

(11)

Getting Help

204

(1)

Revising Documents

204

(1)

Inserting Graphics and Drawings

204

(2)

Address Books, Templates, and Mail Merge

206

(7)

Creating Spreadsheets in StarOffice Calc

213

(5)

Creating Scenarios and Using Goal Seek in StarOffice Calc

215

(3)

Creating Presentations in StarOffice Impress

218

(4)

Starting a New Presentation in StarOffice Impress

218

(4)

Sharing Data between Applications

222

(3)

Importing Spreadsheets and Graphs into StarOffice Writer and Impress

222

(3)

Sharing Data with Other Applications

225

(1)

Working with Microsoft Office Files

225

(6)

Lesson Review

230

(1)

Using Netscape 4.7 and Mozilla E-mail

231

(4)

Using Netscape Mail

232

(1)

Configuring and Using Mozilla

233

(2)

Calendaring

235

(2)

Lesson Review

236

(1)

What's to Come

237

(2)

System Management

239

(18)

Tracking Memory and CPU Usage

239

(7)

Free

239

(2)

Xosview

241

(1)

242

(1)

Top

243

(1)

GTop

244

(2)

Process Control

246

(2)

Kill

247

(1)

Killing Programs in Top and GTop

247

(1)

Techniques to Keep Track of System Health

248

(2)

Multiple Terminals

248

(1)

Log Files

248

(2)

Package Management

250

(4)

Ret Hat Package Management

250

(2)

The Red Hat Network

252

(2)

Recovering from X Window Failures and Shutting Down

254

(2)

Shutting the System Down

254

(1)

Lesson Review

255

(1)

What's to Come

256

(1)

Command-Line Operations

257

(20)

Linux Directories and Navigation

257

(8)

The Linux Directory Structure

258

(2)

Creating and Removing Directories

260

(1)

Navigation

261

(4)

Manipulating and Editing Files

265

(6)

The cp, mv, rm, and mtools Commands

266

(3)

Editing Files with Vi

269

(1)

Lesson Review

270

(1)

Mounting Partitions and Network Shares

271

(2)

Mounting Windows Partitions within Linux on a Dual-Boot Machine

271

(1)

Mounting a Windows Share on the LAN from within Linux

272

(1)

Command-Line Networking

273

(4)

FTP

273

(3)

Telnet

276

(1)

Lesson Review

276

(1)

Appendix A Making a Boot Disk

277

(2)

Appendix B Linux Configuration Files

279

(4)

Appendix C Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS)

283

(8)

Linux Server Configuration

284

(3)

Producing the Security Key

284

(1)

Configuring the Linux Server Files

285

(2)

Linux Workstation Configuration

287

(2)

Windows Workstation Configuration

289

(1)

Starting DDNS

289

(2)

Index

291

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