Well, most of my friends had been doing this blog stuff, and I had an occasion arise that I thought gave me a good reason to start one myself. Last week in my System Administration class, we briefly went over what our teacher is expecting to cover with us over the course of the semester.
We were told we would be working with three systems setup by our professor: the first, a Windows 7 Enterprise x64; the second, a Windows Server 2008 R2; the third, OpenSolaris 2009.06. These machines are accessible through a unique VNC port on a remote Proxmox cluster hosted by my professor, Dr. Gray. The reasoning behind two Windows machines and a Linux machine was for this reasoning: Windows is common to the majority of the population, which will be very familiar to most of us; the Linux machine will give us the opportunity to lay hands on an operating system that is out of most of our "comfort zones".
Over the course of the semester we will be working with these machines as if they are a live environment, from active directory to mail services to whatever challenges Gray feels we need to be tasked with. As documentation is going to be a large part of my grade (at least 1/3), I decided it would be a good idea to keep a blog of my studies for both personal and educational knowledge. So throughout the following blogs, I will most likely be documenting what I have been up to with my studies, and occasionally something outside the norms of school, or something just funny.
We were told we would be working with three systems setup by our professor: the first, a Windows 7 Enterprise x64; the second, a Windows Server 2008 R2; the third, OpenSolaris 2009.06. These machines are accessible through a unique VNC port on a remote Proxmox cluster hosted by my professor, Dr. Gray. The reasoning behind two Windows machines and a Linux machine was for this reasoning: Windows is common to the majority of the population, which will be very familiar to most of us; the Linux machine will give us the opportunity to lay hands on an operating system that is out of most of our "comfort zones".
Over the course of the semester we will be working with these machines as if they are a live environment, from active directory to mail services to whatever challenges Gray feels we need to be tasked with. As documentation is going to be a large part of my grade (at least 1/3), I decided it would be a good idea to keep a blog of my studies for both personal and educational knowledge. So throughout the following blogs, I will most likely be documenting what I have been up to with my studies, and occasionally something outside the norms of school, or something just funny.
The first mini-project I was tasked with in my system administration course was to create local users for our three machines we were given. I will be posting up brief tutorials on how to add users to each system.
