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by komplex 1 view

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I've recently started working for a university research department as their windows guy, their entire network is pretty much on *nix.

The day to day commands is easy enough, but I'm looking for something that will help me understand the orginization of a *nix networ.

Something like What's the *nix version of a domain?

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by jmgarvin

What you are asking is pretty big...

Have you thought of getting a Linux Cert book or Linux for Dummies? They are great resources that can help you significantly.

by btljooz

[i]Linux for Dummies[/i] is [b]ONLY[/b] for Fedora. I have the [u]LATEST[/u] copy of it that just came out in July of this year. Not only is it specifically for Fedora but the CD that comes with it is a Fedora INSTALLATION CD and not a Bootable CD. This cost me $30 as apposed to the $15 that I paid for my copy of [i]Building a PC for Dummies[/i] minus any CD.

I have found both virtually useless for my particular situation. :(

by w2ktechman

although I am no *nix expert, I thought that it was a client/server relationship. If files are being shared, it is acting as a server, if it is requesting files it is a client.
This would more closely resemble a 'workgroup' rather than a domain.

I may be totally wrong here though.

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