Networking For Dummies, 10th Edition^®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

How to Use This Book

What You Don’t Need to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started with Networking

Part II: Setting Up a Network

Part III: Working with Servers

Part IV: Cloudy with a Chance of Gigabytes

Part V: Managing and Protecting Your Network

Part VI: More Ways to Network

Part VII: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Networking

Chapter 1: Let’s Network!

Defining a Network

Why Bother with a Network?

Sharing files

Sharing resources

Sharing programs

Servers and Clients

Dedicated Servers and Peers

What Makes a Network Tick?

It’s Not a Personal Computer Anymore!

The Network Administrator

What Have They Got That You Don’t Got?

Chapter 2: Life on the Network

Distinguishing between Local Resources and Network Resources

What’s in a Name?

Logging On to the Network

Understanding Shared Folders

Four Good Uses for a Shared Folder

Store files that everybody needs

Store your own files

Make a temporary resting place for files on their way to other users

Back up your local hard drive

Oh, the Network Places You’ll Go

Mapping Network Drives

Using a Network Printer

Adding a network printer

Printing to a network printer

Playing with the print queue

Logging Off the Network

Chapter 3: More Ways to Use Your Network

Sharing Your Stuff

Enabling File ...