Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide,9781893115460

Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781893115460
ISBN10: 1893115461
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-03-01
Publisher(s): 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.

Table of Contents

About the Author xv
About the Technical Reviewer xvi
Acknowledgments xvii
Preface xviii
Introduction
1(10)
Who Should Read This Book
1(1)
Navigating This Book
2(1)
Presentation Plan
3(1)
Linux Benefits
3(2)
Open Source Software
5(2)
The Greening of Linux
7(2)
The State of Linux Today (and Tomorrow)
9(2)
Installation
11(24)
The Different Flavors of Linux and the Linux Desktop
11(4)
Linux Distributions
11(3)
Linux Desktops
14(1)
Obtaining Linux Preinstalled
15(2)
Dell
15(1)
Compaq
16(1)
QLI Tech Linux Computers
16(1)
Lesson Review
16(1)
Installing Linux Yourself
17(17)
Which Section to Read First
17(2)
Installing Red Hat 7.2 in Detail
19(11)
Disk Partitioning Guide
30(3)
Lesson Review
33(1)
What's to Come
34(1)
An Introduction to Linux and the Desktop
35(26)
Logging In, Starting the Desktop, and Shutting Down
37(3)
Initial Configuration with Setup at the Command Line
40(2)
Accessing CDs and Floppies from the Desktop and from the Terminal
42(2)
Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies
42(1)
Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies from a Terminal
43(1)
Mounting and Unmounting CDs and Floppies from GNOME
44(1)
An Introduction to the Linux Desktop
44(15)
The Main Menu Structure and Window Controls
44(4)
The Panel, the Pager, and the Linux Desktop Paradigm
48(3)
Customizing the Panel and Its Applets
51(3)
Desktop and Panel Icons and Applications
54(3)
Floppy Disks and CDs: A Simple Scenario
57(2)
Lesson Review
59(1)
What's to Come
59(2)
Connecting to the Internet
61(16)
Configuring New Networking Hardware
61(2)
Configuring Dial-up Internet Access
63(4)
Connecting to the Internet the Easy Way: Using the PPP Dialer
66(1)
Configuring DSL and Cable Internet Access
67(9)
Cable Setup
67(1)
DSL Setup: An Introduction
68(1)
Setting Up DSL: Bridged, Dynamic IP
69(2)
Setting Up DSL: Bridged, Static IP
71(2)
Setting Up DSL: PPPoE Dynamic IP
73(2)
Setting Up DSL: PPPoE Static IP
75(1)
Lesson Review
76(1)
What's to Come
76(1)
Laying the Foundations: Linux As a LAN Server
77(40)
Presentation
78(1)
The Scenario
78(4)
Hardware and Addresses
82(9)
Hardware Connections
82(4)
Computer (IP) Addresses
86(3)
The Scenario
89(1)
Lesson 5-1 Review
90(1)
Setting Up a Dynamic Server and Clients
91(16)
Server Configuration
92(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)
Ps
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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