Introduction
- What This Book Covers
- Summary
Part I Intranets
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Intranets
- The Internet
- The World Wide Web (WWW or W3)
- Mosaic
- Netscape
- Active Documents
- Network Computers
- Back to the Future
- Corporate Culture
- The Internet?The Ultimate Wide Area Network?
- Summary
Chapter 2 The Structure of an Intranet
- The Network
- Layered Protocols
- The OSI Model
- TCP/IP
- Physical Network Media
- The Server
- Web Servers
- Information Sources
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Security Issues
- Dynamic Pages
- Common Gateway Interface
- Gateway APIs
- The Clients
- Web Browsers
- The Publisher
- Publishing Information: HTML and HTML Editors
- Summary
Chapter 3 Microsoft Intranet Tools
- Windows NT Server and Workstation
- Intranet Servers
- Hardware Requirements
- User Interface
- System Configuration
- The Control Panel
- The Registry
- Performance Monitor
- The Task Manager
- Summary
Part II The Intra-Network
Chapter 4 Network Protocols
- Setting Up a Microsoft Network
- What You Will Need
- Client-Server Machine Requirements
- Network Hardware
- Software
- Planning
- Installing Networking on Windows Computers
- Configuring Networking
- The Network Applet
- Adding Protocols
- Configuring Networking for Windows 95 Clients
- NetworkProtocols
- TCP/IP
- Internet Layer Addressing
- IPX/SPX
- NetBEUI
- Troubleshooting Network Installations
- Using ping to Test TCP/IP
- Ipconfig
- Summary
Chapter 5 Networking with Windows NT
- NT Domains
- Creating a Domain
- Joining a Domain
- The Network Neighborhood
- Domain Administration: The Server Manager
- Domain Users
- User Administration
- NT Network Services
- Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
- Configuring WINS clients
- Configuring the WINS Server: The WINS Manager
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Domain Name Resolution System (DNS)
- Summary
Part III The Server
Chapter 6 NT Web Servers: Internet Information Server (IIS)
- Installing IIS
- Minimum Requirements
- Obtaining IIS
- Installing IIS from NT Server 4.0
- Installing IIS from CD ROM/Download
- Managing IIS Services
- NT Services Applet
- Web Administration of IIS
- Internet Service Manager
- The WWW Service
- Configuring the WWW Service
- WWW Service Property Sheets
- Publishing WWW Information
- Creating a Start Page
- The FTP Service
- FTP Uniform Resource Locators
- A Typical FTP Session
- Registry Elements
- Registry Entries Common to All Services
- WWW Service Specific Entries
- FTP Service Entries
- Summary
Chapter 7 Unix Web Servers:NCSA HTTPd
- NCSA HTTPd
- Obtaining NCSA HTTPd
- Creating Users and Groups for HTTPd
- Creating New Directories for HTTPd
- Installing HTTPd
- Compiling NCSA HTTPd
- Configuring NCSA HTTPd
- httpd.conf
- srm.conf
- access.conf
- mime.types
- Starting and Stopping HTTPd
- Starting HTTPd
- Stopping HTTPd
- Summary
Part IV The Clients
Chapter 8 Internet Explorer
- Internet Explorer
- Web Browsers
- Internet Explorer
- Using Internet Explorer
- Configuring IE 3.0
- Installing Internet Explorer 3.0
- Summary
Part V Publishing Information and Applications
Chapter 9 Publishing Tools
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- Hypertext
- Markup
- HTML Editors and Browsers
- HTML Structure
- Basic Text Markup
- Microsoft FrontPage
- Client/Server Web Authoring
- WebBots
- FrontPage Client
- Installing FrontPage Client
- The FrontPage Explorer and Editor
- Creating a New Web with FrontPage Explorer
- Explorer Tools
- Web Management with FrontPage
- Setting Web Security
- Verifying and Recalculating Links
- Web Settings
- Using FrontPage with Existing Webs
- Configuring Other Editors
- Tips and Tricks
- Summary
Chapter 10 Building Webs with FrontPage
- Basic Web Techniques
- Page Properties
- Formatting Text
- Tables
- Images
- Creating a Personal Home Page
- Inserting HTML
- Including Pages
- Frames
- Interactive Webs
- Discussion Groups
- Summary
Chapter 11 The FrontPage Server
- The FrontPage Server Administrator
- Server Extension Files and Directories
- FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS
- Server Extension Files and Directories
- Managing Access Control
- Troubleshooting IIS and FrontPage
- Common Error Messages
- The FrontPage Personal Web Server
- Setting Up the Personal Web Server
- Installing the FrontPage Personal Web Server Extensions
- Adding Other Authors to the Personal Web Server in Windows 95
- Troubleshooting
- FrontPage Server Extensions on a Unix Web Server
- Getting Hold of the Server Extensions
- Creating Users for FrontPage in Unix
- Creating Directories for the Server Extensions
- Installing the Server Extensions
- Manually Restarting Servers
- Using FrontPage on a Portable Computer
- Summary
Chapter 12 Forms and CGI
- Forms
- In HTML
- In FrontPage
- Summary
- Handling Form Output
- Running Applications Using IIS
- CGI
- Perl
- Summary
Chapter 13 Intranet Database Connectivity
- An Introduction to Databases
- Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Logging to a SQL Database from IIS
- Setting Up IIS to Log to a Database
- Summary
- Database Gateways
- An Example Database
- Microsoft dbWeb
- Internet Database Connector (IDC)
- Summary
Part VI The Internet
Chapter 14 The Internet: Connections and Security
- Connecting to the Internet
- Intranet Security
- Encryption
- Authentication
- Password Authentication
- Configuring Access in the Internet Service Manager
- Controlling Permissions
- Firewalls and Proxy Servers
- Catapult Server
- Summary
Appendix
Index
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