If one thing is for certain, it’s that at some point you’ll forget the password that you assigned to a router, or be asked to configure a router whose password you cannot be provided with. The good news is that with physical access to the console port, you’re in luck. Now that you know about […]

It’s a fact of life that no matter how carefully you manage your equipment, something is bound to go wrong at some point. While Cisco has a great track record of providing stable equipment with a solid operating system, there are still times when something will go wrong. When problems do occur, fixes are usually […]

The first important step in configuring your Cisco router is setting a password to control access to privileged mode. Without one, your router’s configuration is fair game to anyone with a rollover cable and only a tiny bit of know-how. Recall that the enable secret password always takes precedence over the unencrypted and less secure […]

At the beginning of this chapter we configured our initial passwords using the System Configuration Dialog. In both real-life and on the exams, however, you will need to know how to configure passwords from the command line. Remember that by default, a router will usually have no passwords associated with it (some models do ship […]

For the time being, we’re going to continue to access the router via a console connection. We’ll get into the details of connecting via a telnet session a little later in the chapter. After connecting, you’ll be presented with the message below.
toronto-1 con0 is now available
Press RETURN to get started!
The message makes us aware that […]

It’s your first day on the job and you’re rearing to go. The previous administrator left two weeks ago so the servers have been running on their own with no administrative maintenance. Microsoft decides that today is also the day they are going to release a number of critical update patches to the Windows Server […]

Creating user accounts in Active Directory is simply enough, seeing as a wizard walks you through the process. Simply right-click in Active Directory User and Computers, choose New – User, and you’re off to the races. The wizard only sets up basic account properties, such as names, logon names, passwords, and so forth. To get […]

Since the basics of this topic have already been covered in previous articles, I will keep this part short. Just as a review, remember that 3 main types of user accounts exist in a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment:
Local User Accounts: These accounts exist in the local Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database on each Windows […]

In order for a user to use a Windows 2000 Professional system, they must be authenticated. Authentication occurs when a user provides a valid username and password combination for the system or domain they are logging into. If logging into a Windows 2000 system locally, the user must provide a username and password from the […]