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This free course will teach you the details about various operating systems present in the market today. You will understand how to communicate and share information among them via networking set-ups, configurations, and commands. The course is technical, and positions Linux at the center of the computing network involved. In many cases, this course offers step-by-step methods to solve a specific problem. In the appendix, the various network commands are listed, and include a list of all products that can help quickly solve difficult integration problems.

Update 10/23/2006: This course has been updated and is now found here:
Networking Course: System Integration between different Operating Systems

Table of Contents

Preface: The Project

Goals for the System Integrator Course

Introduction

Chapter N1. An Introduction to System Integration

• What is a System Integrator?
• Integration UNIX systems
• Integration Linux with MS-Windows
• Integration Linux with Apple Systems
• Integrating Linux with IBM AS/400 systems
• Plan B: Use native software on a UNIX System
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N2. The TCP/IP protocol between UNIX machines

• An historical introduction
• The TCP/IP packet
• Packet routing
• The command "route"
• The command "arp"
• The command "netstat"
• The command "tcpdump"
• The "ifconfig" and the Card configuration.
• The TCP/IP Protocol Picture
• Dialogue between UNIX systems
• The BSD "inted.conf" file
• The new "xinetd.conf"
• The FTP Service
• The ".netrc"
• The wrapper library
• The /etc/ftpacces
• Printing services between UNIX systems
• NFS Services between UNIX systems
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N3. Integrating Linux with MS-Windows

• Integration of Linux and Windows via TCP/IP
• The Shared-Integration Mode
• The X-Integration Mode
• Sharing MS-Windows devices with a Linux box
• How to use X-Window programs on MS Windows
• The DESQview/X product
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N4. Using SAMBA to integrate Linux and MS-Windows systems

• What is SAMBA ?
• The SAMBA programs
• Launching SAMBA
• First Commands
• The SAMBA Configuration file: "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
• Browse your Linux box from MS Windows
• Browse your MS Windows system from Linux
• Printing from MS Window
• Mounting remote Window directories with Linux "mount"
• Automatic remote mounting
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N5. Integrating Linux with Novell NetWare

• Linux and Novell
• The NetWare Directory Services
• Browsing NetWare Servers from Linux
• Administering a Novell server from Linux
• Printing from Linux to the NetWare printer
• Caldera NetWare for Linux
• Some OpenSource tools
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N6. Integrating Linux on Appletalk

• The AppleTalk protocol
• How to connect an iMac to the Linux Intranet
• Integrating X-Window with the graphical Mac OS
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N7. AS/400 and LINUX Integration

• Introduction
• The AS/400 Integrated File System
• The TCP/IP communications
• Sharing files with NFS
• Terminal Emulation
• Some useful AS/400 utilities
• Database File to Stream File Copy
• Stream File to Database File Copy
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N8. The X-Terminal

• What is an X-Terninal?
• How to setup an X-Terminal on a local network
• The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
• The VNC Project
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N9. How to set up an Intranet

• An Introduction to Intranet Setup
• The Network Transmission types
• Point to Point Networks
• Multipoint Networks
• Transmission Protocols: Synchronous, Asynchronous and Isosynchronous
• Network protocols
• LAN, WAN and its types
• The Star-Form Network
• The Chain-Form Network
• The Bus-Form Network
• Different Intranet configurations
• Linux server with MS-Windows clients
• Linux server and client
• Heterogeneous networks: UNIX, Linux, Macintosh and others
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter N10. An Introduction to CORBA

• What is CORBA?
• Why these concepts are important for System Integrators ?
• The OMG Defintion Language
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

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Appendix NA. An alphabetic list of products for System Integration.

Appendix NB. Glossary of various protocols used in several Operating systems

Appendix NP: Answers to all exercises

Appendix NV: Another view for LINUX ... the POSIX view

Bibliography

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