Lab 02 - IronMansDaughter/Sys-255 GitHub Wiki

Lab Summary:

So far in this lab we've changed the administrator password, connected to our network, and have now rebooted/restarted the vm. Now that we restarted, I used the commands whoami and ping google.com in my terminal window and the whoami command came back correct as "ad01-janelle\administrator" and the ping was successful. The server role has now been selected accordingly and it is installing right now. The rest of the lab was used to finish setting up user accounts and then testing connectivity. Everything went well and there were no problems to work out.

The Active Directory:

The active directory enables administrators to manage permissions and access to network resources.

DNS:

The Domain Name System is the naming system used to identify computers reachable through the Internet or other Internet Protocol networks. The Domain Name System or DNS turns domain names into IP addresses.

Commands Used:

nslookup- nslookup is the name of a program that lets an Internet server administrator or any computer user enter a host name (for example, "whatis.com") and find out the corresponding IP address or domain name system (DNS) record.

whoami- Displays user, group and privileges information for the user who is currently logged on to the local system.

hostname- A hostname command is used to view a computer's hostname and domain name (DNS) (Domain Name Service), and to display or set a computer's hostname or domain name.

Diagram From Class Representing Our LAN and WAN Layout: