Assignment # 8

Being Resourceful with NT & other fun games

Journals due: No later than Tuesday, July 20th, 1999.

Part 1 : Exploring the Windows NT Resource Kit

Microsoft sells a separate CD ROM entitled the _Windows NT Resource Kit_. It is a combination of additional programs that a Windows NT administrator should be aware of. Most of the utilities are quite useful and you wonder why they aren't a standard part of NT server :)

Your assignment is to mount the shared volume named "NT Resource KIT CD" from STINGING, install the resource kit and read the documentation.

Then, you are to evaluate as best as possible the utilities that are installed in the kit (in C:\NTRESKIT). At a minimal, test out and evaluate each of the following utilities. Try each one out and provide a one-line explanation of what it does along with your opinion of it's usefulness:

	ADDUSERS
	DIRUSE
	DISKSAVE
	DOMMON
	DRIVERS
	DUMPEL
	EXETYPE
	FINDGRP
	FTEDIT
	GETMAC
	GETSID
	GRPCPY
	INET
	KILL
	NETWATCH
	NLMON
	PERL
	PFMON
	PMON
	PSTAT
	PVIEWER
	PULIST
	QSLICE
	REGBACK
	REGREST
	SC
	SHOWACLS
	SHOWDISK
	SHOWGRPS
	SHOWMBRS
	SHUTDOWN
	SHUTGUI
	SRVINFO
	SU
	TELNETD
	TLIST
	TOPDESK
	USRSTAT
	WINEXIT

Part 2 : NCSA Apache "httpd" installation

You are to obtain the newest version of NCSA's Apache "httpd" server, build it, and install it on your Linux & Solaris machine (check www.apache.org). Obtain the latest version of the NCSA Apache web server Once you have the source, compile it for your machine and install the web server so that it comes up automatically. More than likely there's already a web server running on your machine so you'll have to replace the old web server startup with your new one. Once the web server is up and running, create a default home page for your machine (if you haven't already) that demonstrates the web server is running.

Part 3 : Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

Install Microsoft's web, FTP and gopher server, known collectively as IIS. IIS is on the NT Server 4.0 CD-ROM. Ask one of the CIS 5406 TAs if they can either loan you the backpack parallel port CD-ROM drive or make the CD-ROM available via a network share.

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