The combination
of command line tools and remote graphical administration techniques assures that you??™ll
keep your network running smoothly. This chapter helps you build these skills:
? Obtain Media Access Control (MAC) information with the GetMAC utility
? Manage the network configuration using the Net utility
The most important utility in this chapter is the Net utility. This particular utility helps you perform
more network tasks than nearly any other utility on your machine. It??™s important to begin
using the Net utility whenever you can. You??™ll find a few usage examples in this chapter. However,
the ???Configuring the Server for Initial Use??? section of Chapter 1 provides a considerable number of
usage examples as well. You??™ll also find examples in Chapters 3 (the ???Performing Server Updates???
section) and 4 (the ???Network??? section). In fact, the Net utility is important enough that you??™ll find
it sprinkled throughout many of the chapters in this book. Make sure you spend time practicing
Sharing Folders Using the SHRPubW Utility
Your hard drive is probably loaded with a wealth of undocumented utilities. In many cases, these
undocumented utilities are gold for anyone working at the command line.
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