Novell NetWare 5.0 User Fundamentals

Audience

This course is designed for business professionals and end users who use Novell NetWare as their networking environment with Microsoft Windows as the operating environment.

Objective

• Identify the definitions of different components of a network the topologies in which the components are arranged and how NetWare 5.0 services provide the basic networking functioning.
• Identify types of users on a network and login and logout from a network.
• View network resources manage files and directories.
• Communicate with other users on the network.
• Redirect a local print port to a network print queue.
• Identify the types of network security.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Basic Networking Concepts

• Match the commonly used networking terms with their definitions.
• Identify the characteristics of networking environments.
• Match the physical topologies with their characteristics.
• Match the access methods with their characteristics.
• Sequence the steps involved in the process of exchanging data between the workstation hardware and software.
• Match services provided by NetWare 5.0 with their uses.
• Identify the benefits of NetWare Directory Services (NDS).
• Categorize a given set of NDS tree objects.
• Identify different ways of specifying the context name of an NDS object.

Unit 2: Common Network Operations

• Match the categories of users on a network with the tasks they perform.
• Login to a NetWare 5.0 network from a Windows 95 workstation.
• Logout of the NetWare 5.0 network from a Windows 95 workstation.
• Display the current login information about a user.
• Browse an object in an NDS tree.
• Map a network drive to a volume.
• Map a network search drive.
• Disconnect a mapped drive.
• Identify the file system management tasks that can be performed by using NetWare Administrator.
• Manage files in a directory by using NetWare Administrator.
• Manage directories in a volume by using NetWare Administrator.
• Salvage a file from a network drive by using NetWare Administrator.
• Purge files by using NetWare Administrator.
• Send a message to specific users connected to a NetWare 5.0 network.
• Send a request to the technical support personnel by using the Help Requester.

Unit 3: Network Printing

• Distinguish between the characteristics of public access printers and controlled access printers.
• Set properties for an NDPS print job by using NetWare Administrator.
• Change the order of an NDPS print job by using NetWare Administrator.
• Cancel an NDPS print job by using NetWare Administrator.
• Display the non-NDPS print jobs in a print queue by using NetWare Administrator.
• Change the order of a non-NDPS print job in a print queue by using NetWare Administrator.
• Cancel a non-NDPS print job in a print queue by using NetWare Administrator.

Unit 4: Network Security

• Identify the types of network security provided by NetWare 5.0.
• Sequence the steps in the login process in a NetWare 5.0 network.
• Grant rights to a user by using NetWare Administrator.
• Identify the features of attribute security.
• Set restrictions on a user account by using password restriction properties.
• Match commonly occurring error messages with the actions that need to be performed to troubleshoot the errors.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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