Wiley Mastering Windows Server 2008 Networking Foundations 978-0-470-24984-0 ユーザーズマニュアル
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Chapter 1
Why Network?
If you’re reading this book, then you have an interest in Microsoft networking. For some people,
networking sounds like a scary topic, but it really isn’t. Getting a network running doesn’t need
to be hard, and this chapter explains many of the reasons why you want to set up a network when
you have multiple machines to use. Windows Server 2008 makes networking considerably easier
than ever, in fact, so you’ll find that you do less work than ever before to get a network up and
running.
networking sounds like a scary topic, but it really isn’t. Getting a network running doesn’t need
to be hard, and this chapter explains many of the reasons why you want to set up a network when
you have multiple machines to use. Windows Server 2008 makes networking considerably easier
than ever, in fact, so you’ll find that you do less work than ever before to get a network up and
running.
In this chapter, we’ll give you a bit of history on Server 2008 and then take a very high-altitude
look at why we’re using Microsoft’s networking software in the first place. This is not intended to
prepare you for a test on networking essentials, nor is it a complete book on Windows past and
present. What I’m trying to accomplish in this chapter is to answer these questions:
prepare you for a test on networking essentials, nor is it a complete book on Windows past and
present. What I’m trying to accomplish in this chapter is to answer these questions:
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Why should you care about all of this networking stuff, anyway?
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What do you need to create a simple network?
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Why does Microsoft’s networking software approach networking the way that it does?
What’s the Point of Networks and Networking?
In a way, this chapter is penance for my youthful misdeeds.
When I was in the seventh grade, I had a math teacher named Mr. Schtazle. Seventh-grade
math was a kind of potpourri of mathematical topics — I recall one chapter that took pains to drill
into our heads the difference between precision and accuracy — and I’d plague the poor man at
the beginning of every chapter by asking him, ‘‘How will we use this?’’ — a slightly more-polite
version of ‘‘Why do we care?’’ Well, nowadays I find that when I’m teaching a room full of people
about Windows Server, I’ve got to be careful to answer the question ‘‘Why do you care?’’ even if it
isn’t asked. Because if I don’t answer that, then many people in the room will leave the class with a
pretty good notion of how to accomplish a bunch of tasks but not a really good feel for why they’d
do the tasks in the first place. And you know what? Answering the ‘‘Why do I care?’’ question can
be pretty rough some times.
into our heads the difference between precision and accuracy — and I’d plague the poor man at
the beginning of every chapter by asking him, ‘‘How will we use this?’’ — a slightly more-polite
version of ‘‘Why do we care?’’ Well, nowadays I find that when I’m teaching a room full of people
about Windows Server, I’ve got to be careful to answer the question ‘‘Why do you care?’’ even if it
isn’t asked. Because if I don’t answer that, then many people in the room will leave the class with a
pretty good notion of how to accomplish a bunch of tasks but not a really good feel for why they’d
do the tasks in the first place. And you know what? Answering the ‘‘Why do I care?’’ question can
be pretty rough some times.
So, Mr. Schtazle, if you’re out there. . .my apologies.
Let’s consider these two questions:
Let’s consider these two questions:
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Why network in the first place?
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If we agree that networking is a good thing, why do we do it this way?
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