On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Brent Marsh wrote:
I've been working with FreeBSD machines on and off for several
years now. I
am looking to set up my first network. First for home, and second
for an
office environment. I want to make sure I follow 'industry
standards' so my
network will have everything that any network in corporate America
might
have, with no corners cut.
Actually, it isn't hard to do significantly better than the average
corporate network, even if you do cut corners.
As a total networking newbie, I'm looking for step-by-step
instructions.
This is impractical without knowing the details about your network,
hardware resources, services and users, etc. Given adequate
information, it turns into work that people normally bill one for. :-)
I know the network topology, but don't know how to make them
'work'. Do I
need to 'define' a domain? What is it that makes my network a
cohesive
unit?
For your network to be a cohesive unit, it needs to be managed.
This means that it needs a network admin responsible for the network
to organize the resources available, implement and maintain the
services needed by the users of the network, provide documentation
and policies for these users so that they know what services are
available (such as email, filesharing, Internet WWW access, printing,
etc), and how to set them up or get help doing so.
It's possible for a complete novice or newbie to learn how to
configure and maintain a network by doing so, but you're not going to
learn everything needed in a day (or even in a decade)-- working with
a skilled network admin will bring most people up to speed much more
rapidly via their example than self-learning.
If someone could point me to a step-by-step document, that'd be
great. The
FreeBSD handbook has all of the components (I suspect) but not the
actual
concepts of getting it all to work.
Unless your office is entirely FreeBSD-based, you will need to think
about and deal with other operating systems; the FreeBSD handbook is
a good reference for setting up many services, but it does not
discuss the care and feeding of Windows clients (or Mac clients, or
Linux clients, etc).
--
-Chuck
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