INSTALL NETWORK FUNCTIONS AND CONFIGURE
PROTOCOLS
Installing and checking out the network adapter is half of the equation; the other half
has to do with setting up the networking functions within Windows Server 2008 as
well as identifying and configuring the networking standards or protocols that will
be used.
Install Network Functions
Networking functions provide the software for a computer to access other computers
and, separately, for other computers to access the computer you are working on. In other
words, the two primary functions allow the computer to be a client (it accesses other
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computers) and to be a server (other computers access it). Make sure that these two services
are installed by following these steps:
1. Click Start | Control Panel, double-click Network and Sharing Center, click
Manage Network Connections on the left, and double-click Local Area
Connection. The Local Area Connection Status dialog box opens, as shown
next. In the particular case shown here, the computer thinks it is connected to
the network and is sending and receiving information.
2. Click Properties. If the User account Control dialog box appears, click Continue.
The Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 6-3, opens
and displays the services and protocols that have automatically been installed.
Under the default circumstances, this includes three services??”Client For
Microsoft Networks, File And Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks, and QoS
(Quality of Service) Packet Scheduler??”and four protocols??”Internet Protocol
(IPv4 and IPv6, see Chapter 5) and two for network discovery.
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