Chapter 10. Using Command-Line Utilities

After completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• What are some of the more useful Microsoft Windows® commands for configuring and troubleshooting network clients and servers?

• What are some of the more useful UNIX commands for configuring and troubleshooting network clients and servers?

Your configuration and troubleshooting of networks will undoubtedly involve issuing commands at an operating system (OS) prompt of an end-user computer (a client) or a server. This chapter provides you with a collection of commands that you can use at those OS prompts. The two OSs for which commands are provided include Microsoft Windows and UNIX.

Some commands, you will notice, exist ...

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