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CHEAT SHEET

NETWORKING ALL-IN-ONE FOR DUMMIES

CHEAT SHEET
From Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

By Doug Lowe

Managing a small computer network is well within your reach! But it’s vital that you keep
track of key information that’s unique to your network. This cheat sheet is designed to give
you quick access to your network information, explanation of some basic network
concepts, such as pin connections and IP address ranges, and a list of useful websites for
networking information.

IDENTIFYING AND RECORDING KEY NETWORK INFORMATION

Print out and use these tables to keep track of the key information that allows you to
access your network, contact your network administrator, access network storage, use
network printers, and keep track of important network servers.

Account Information

My user ID ____________________________________

My password DON’T WRITE IT HERE!

 Domain name ____________________________________

My e-mail address ____________________________________

My Network Administrator

Name ____________________________________

Phone number ____________________________________

E-mail name ____________________________________

Favorite snack food ____________________________________

My Network Drives

Drive Letter Description

_____ _____________________________________________________________

_____ _____________________________________________________________

_____ _____________________________________________________________

_____ _____________________________________________________________

_____ _____________________________________________________________

My Network Printers

Printer Name IP Address Description

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

_________ ________ _____________________________________________

My Network Servers

Server Name IP Address Description

____________ ________ __________________________________________

____________ ________ __________________________________________

____________ ________ __________________________________________

____________ ________ __________________________________________

IDENTIFYING AND RECORDING KEY INTERNET CONNECTION

INFORMATION

Print out and use these spaces to keep track of key information about your Internet
connection, including your Internet service provider, your TCP/IP con guration, and
information about your router.

Provider

Company name ____________________________________

Technical-support contact ____________________________________

Technical-support phone number ____________________________________

Website ____________________________________

E-mail address ____________________________________

TCP/IP Information

IP range ________________ to ________________

Subnet mask ____________________________________

Default gateway ____________________________________

 Nameservers __________ — __________ — __________

Router Information

Make and model ____________________________________

Internal IP address (LAN) ____________________________________

External IP address (WAN) ____________________________________

Administrator username ____________________________________

Password DON’T WRITE IT HERE!

KNOWING THE RJ-45 PIN CONNECTIONS

If you’re wiring up your own RJ-45 connectors for a TCP/IP network, you need this
information about the connections to make sure you connect the pins correctly:

Pin 1: White/orange

Pin 2: Orange

Pin 3: White/green

Pin 6: Green

IDENTIFYING PRIVATE IP ADDRESS RANGES

Private IP address blocks are the IP addresses administrators most often use for private
networks. Most networks use IP addresses in one of these ranges:
 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255

172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255

192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255

USEFUL WEBSITES FOR NETWORKING INFORMATION

As a network administrator, the Internet can your best friend, o ering all sorts of great
information to help manage your network. Here are some websites for you to visit often.

To register domains:

InterNIC: www.internic.net

Network Solutions: www.networksolutions.com

register.com: www.register.com

To check your TCP/IP con guration:

DNSstu : www.dnsstu .com

To see whether your e-mail server has been blacklisted:

DNSBL.info: www.dnsbl.info

Don’t forget to check out the standards organizations from time to time and look for the
latest networking news and updates. Here are the standards organizations you’ll want to
check:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: www.ieee.org

International Organization for Standardization: www.iso.org

Internet Engineering Task Force: www.ietf.org

Internet Society: www.isoc.org

  PROGRAMMING  NETWORKING  NETWORK ADMINISTRATION: WINDOWS USER PROPERTIES

NETWORK ADMINISTRATION: WINDOWS USER

PROPERTIES

RELATED BOOK
Networking For Dummies, 10th Edition

By Doug Lowe

For each user account you create on your network, you can set additional properties for the user
by right-clicking the new user and choosing Properties from the contextual menu. This command
brings up the User Properties dialog box, which has about a million tabs that you can use to set
various properties for the user.

The gure shows the General tab, which lists basic information about the user, such as the user’s
name, o ce location, and phone number.

CHANGE THE USER’S CONTACT INFORMATION

Several tabs of the User Properties dialog box contain contact information for the user, such as

Address: Change the user’s street address, post o ce box, city, state, zip code, and so on.

Telephones: Specify the user’s phone numbers.

Organization: Record the user’s job title and the name of his boss.

SET ACCOUNT OPTIONS

The Account tab of the User Properties dialog box features a variety of interesting options that you
can set for the user. You can change the user’s logon name, change the password options that you
set when you created the account, and set an expiration date for the account.

The following account options are available in the Account Options list box:

User Must Change Password at Next Logon: This default option allows you to create a one-
time-only password that can get the user started with the network. The rst time the user logs
on to the network, he is asked to change the password.

User Cannot Change Password: Use this option if you don’t want to allow users to change
their passwords. (Obviously, you can’t use this option and the preceding one at the same time.)
 Password Never Expires: Use this option to bypass the password-expiration policy for this
user so that the user will never have to change her password.

Store Password Using Reversible Encryption: This option stores passwords by using an
encryption scheme that hackers can easily break, so you should avoid it like the plague.

Account Is Disabled: This option allows you to create an account that you don’t yet need. As
long as the account remains disabled, the user won’t be able to log on.

Smart Card Is Required for Interactive Logon: If the user’s computer has a smart card
reader to read security cards automatically, select this option to require the user to use it.

Account Is Trusted for Delegation: This option indicates that the account is trustworthy and
can set up delegations. This advanced feature usually is reserved for Administrator accounts.

Account Is Sensitive and Cannot Be Delegated: This option prevents other users from
impersonating this account.

Use DES Encryption Types for This Account: This option beefs up the encryption for
applications that require extra security.

Do Not Require Kerberos Preauthentication: Kerberos refers to a common security

protocol used to authenticate users. Select this option only if you are using a di erent type of
security.

SPECIFY LOGON HOURS

You can restrict the hours during which the user is allowed to log on to the system. Click the Logon
Hours button on the Account tab of the User Properties dialog box to open the Logon Hours for
[User] dialog box.
Initially, the Logon Hours dialog box is set to allow the user to log on at any time of day or night. To
change the hours that you want the user to have access, click a day and time or a range of days
and times, select Logon Permitted or Logon Denied, and then click OK.

RESTRICT ACCESS TO CERTAIN COMPUTERS

Typically, a user can use his user account to log on to any computer that’s part of the user’s
domain. You can restrict a user to certain computers, however, by clicking the Log On To button on
the Account tab of the User Properties dialog box. This button brings up the Logon Workstations
dialog box.
To restrict the user to certain computers, select The Following Computers radio button. Then, for
each computer you want to allow the user to log on from, enter the computer’s name in the text
box and click Add.

If you make a mistake, you can select the incorrect computer name and then click Edit to
change the name. or click Remove to delete the name.

SET THE USER’S PROFILE INFORMATION

From the Pro le tab, you can con gure three bits of information about the user’s pro le
information:
Pro le Path: This eld speci es the location of the user’s roaming pro le..

Logon Script: This eld is the name of the user’s logon script. A logon script is a batch le that’s
run whenever the user logs on. The main purpose of the logon script is to map the network
shares that the user requires access to.

Logon scripts are carryovers from early versions of Windows NT Server. In Windows Server
2012, pro les are the preferred way to con gure the user’s computer when the user logs on,
including setting up network shares. Many administrators still like the simplicity of logon scripts,
however.

Home Folder: This section is where you specify the default storage location for the user.

From the Pro le tab, you can specify the location of an existing pro le for the user, but it
doesn’t actually let you set up the pro le.