Course ILT Unit objectives Describe the network clients that are available to connect DOS-, Windows-, and Macintosh-based computers to a network Network clients

Course ILT Topic A Topic A: Network client review

Course ILT Network client review Network clients provide the connectivity between the server and the individual workstations in any client/server network configuration The choice of which client to use is driven by the choice of which operating system is being used

Course ILT DOS clients DOS is an operating system that doesn’t provide for network connectivity A DOS-compatible client must be installed to provide connectivity from the DOS workstation to the server DOS is limited to having only one real- mode client loaded at any one time –Note that “real-mode” is the older mode that x186 processors used, when a maximum of 1MB of memory was available. “Protected mode” was introduced with the x286s, in the late 80s.

Course ILT Windows 3.x clients Windows 3.x doesn’t support protected- mode network clients –This means that only one 3.x client can operate at any one time; the different clients would otherwise be competing for the same memory space. Some Windows 3.x clients are: –Artisoft LANtastic –Novell NetWare –Banyan VINES –Microsoft Network Client

Course ILT Windows for Workgroups 3.x clients Windows for Workgroups 3.x is a peer-to-peer networking version of Windows 3.x Network client options include: –Artisoft LANtastic –Novell NetWare –The Banyan VINES client –The Microsoft Network Client Same as the clients

Course ILT Windows for Workgroups 3.x The evolution of Windows operating systems is a story of moving slowly away from a DOS-based kernel. –In 3.x, this process had barely begun, if at all. –3.x is really a DOS OS with a simple GUI on top or it. –This being the case, it has the same networking limitations that DOS has. –The evolution with 3.x, however, lies in its ability to be configured to support external clients. (See the list on the previous slide ) –There is also a peer-to-peer version of 3.x.

Course ILT Windows 95 clients Windows 95 supports both the newer, protected- mode network clients and older, real-mode ones. Clients include: –Banyan VINES DOS/Windows 3.1 client –FTP Software NFS client (InterDrive 95) –Microsoft’s Client for Microsoft Networks –Microsoft’s Client for NetWare Networks –Novell NetWare Workstation Shell 3.x –Novell NetWare Workstation Shell 4.0 and above (VLM) –SunSoft PC-NFS (5.0)

Course ILT Network components From “Client” you can add either of 95’s two protected-mode clients: - “Client for Microsoft Networks” - “Client for NetWare Networks”

Course ILT Windows 98 clients Included protected-mode clients: –Client for Microsoft Networks –Client for NetWare Networks –Microsoft Family Logon A number of 3 rd party, protected-mode clients also can be added – IBM, Banyan, etc. Included real-mode clients: –Banyan DOS/Windows 3.1 client –FTP Software NFS Client –Novell NetWare (NETX) –Novell NetWare ( VLM)

Course ILT Windows NT/2000/XP clients Windows NT/2000/XP: –Provides built-in support for Microsoft and Novell NetWare networks –Compared with Windows 95 or 98, the support for multiple types of networks isn’t as robust –Doesn’t provide inherent support for real-mode network clients (probably because they are very old apps that can hardly run on a system with newer hardware; this support simply isn’t needed any more) –The connectivity to Windows-based networks is installed by default The book describes how to configure different NOSs and versions to connect to each other: page15-8ff.

Course ILT The Network utility in Windows NT

Course ILT Adding a client in Windows 2000/XP

Course ILT Activity A-1 page 15-9 Discussing Windows network clients

Course ILT Macintosh clients Apple Macintosh computers come fully equipped with their own networking software, AppleTalk With the network software, Macs can easily be networked together Majority of the Macintosh clients in the business world participate in a Windows NT or Novell NetWare environment Macs are much more fully-integrated with Windows and other OSs than they used to be. They share printers and files without extensive user configuration.

Course ILT Macintosh clients –OS X and AppleShare use different methods to interact with other OSs. –AppleShare has it’s own client for connections with itself, Windows, etc – AppleShare Client. –OS X uses Samba, which uses Server Messenger Blocks (SMB). Wikipedia on Samba: Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or as a domain member. It can also be part of an Active Directory domain. Samba runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Solaris, AIX and the BSD variants, including Apple's Mac OS X Server (which was added to the Mac OS X client in version 10.2).

Course ILT Novell NetWare clients –Novell offers a network client that can be installed and configured on a workstation for network connectivity –The Novell Client provides a graphical utility to log in from Windows and the capability to access network files and printers through Windows dialog boxes –NetWare and Macs have a number of utilities to help them to interact: “NetWare Client for Macintosh has a login to take you directly to the Mac functions “Print Chooser” and “Volume Mounter” are just a couple of several convenient utilities

Course ILT Novell NetWare clients Novell Client offers access to: –All Novell releases, from 2.x to 6.x –Windows OSs from 3.x and DOS to XP and Vista Novell Client gives you 32-bit functionality It can connect simultaneously to both the older directory, NDS (Novell Directory Services) and the current standard, eDirectory.

Course ILT Activity A-2 page Macintosh and Novell NetWare clients

Course ILT Unit summary Described the network clients that are available to connect DOS-, Windows-, and Macintosh-based clients to a network