Network Identification

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Network Identification

• BICS 565

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Users and Computers

• Users have a user ID and a Password
• Computers in a Windows network have NetBIOS names
• 15 characters with a 16th hidden character for
  service identification
• Pure Windows 2000 networks do not need to use
  this. They use a scheme similar to DNS

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DNS in Win2K

• A Windows domain acts like an Internet domain.
• It works with a DNS to identify computers on a
  network
• Zones are used to identify groups of computers in
  a logical format or setup

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Zones

• Active Directory (AD) Integrated Zones all host
  and TCP/IP information integrated with AD.
• Standard Primary Zone also known as the master
  zone, this is a repository for all original
  information (similar to PDC in NT4)
• Standard Secondary Zone stores a copy of the
  master zone (similar to BDC in NT4)

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Start of Authority (SOA)

• Serial Numbers
• Refresh, Retry and Expire Intervals
• Minimum TTL
• Lookup Zones
• Zone Transfers
• full
• incremental

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WINS

• Windows Internet Name Service
• WINS is to NetBIOS what DNS is to TCP/IP

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Domains
Root
com
mil
us
edu
org
Microsoft
Real
Intel
Cisco
sfsu
verma
indigo
orion
apollo
www