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The document discusses system administration and maintenance, focusing on network file storage and print services. It explains the use of file systems like FAT32 and NFS for sharing files over a network, as well as the advantages of using Samba for Windows interoperability. Additionally, it covers the management of printers within an organization and the setup of print servers on various operating systems.

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SAM_Lecture_Five

The document discusses system administration and maintenance, focusing on network file storage and print services. It explains the use of file systems like FAT32 and NFS for sharing files over a network, as well as the advantages of using Samba for Windows interoperability. Additionally, it covers the management of printers within an organization and the setup of print servers on various operating systems.

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System
Administration &
Maintenance
Exploring software and platform
services
Dr. Ahmed Alnasheri 05/26/2025

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 1


Network File Storage
There are many types of file systems that can be used across all major
operating system.

What is files system?

File system is used to mange how data stored and retrieved to /from HD.

Without FS, we can’t do anything.

FAT32 is a popular FAT system that's compatible with Windows, Linux, and
Mac OS.

But it has severe limitations on the amount of data you can store on a
volume.

What happens if you have multiple users (as sysadmin) that want to share
files between each other?
System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 2
Network File Storage
Well, they need to store the files somewhere and they need to
be able to retrieve the files over a network.

Network file system, or NFS, allows us to do this.

What is NFS?

It's a protocol that enables files to be shared over a network.

 You can install NFS server software that modify the


configuration files for the directories that you want to allow
shared access to.

NFS server can be setup on a Linux or windows environment.


System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 3
Network File Storage / FAT vs NTFS

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 4


Network File Storage
To install NFS server on windows 2016 server:
https://newhelptech.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/step-by-step-how-to-installing-
and-configuring-nfs-server-in-windows-server-2016/

Once you do that, the NFS service will be running in the


background of the server.

On each client machine that wants to access a server, you


just mount the file system the way you would any other file
system. Except, you'd use the host name instead of a physical
disk device.

From there, you can access the shared directory like you
would any other folder in a computer.

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 5
Network File Storage
NFS is a good solution to file sharing within the network, but as with
anything on a network heavy usage will slow down the file system.

 While NFS works with all major operating systems there are still
interoperability issues with Windows.

 If your fleet consists mostly Windows machines you might want to look at
using something like Samba.

 Samba services are similar to NFS since it can centrally share and manage
files services. Also, all major operating systems can use a Samba file sharing.

The only reason you might want to consider Samba over NFS, is because it
works better with Windows operating systems.

 It also includes other services that can be integrated with your organization
like printer services, we'll talk about printer services in an upcoming slides.

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 6


Network File Storage (Samba or
SMB)
One thing to note is that, you may hear the term Samba or SMB.

 SMB is a protocol that Samba implements.

When you create a Windows shared folder it's actually using the SMB
protocol, Samba itself is a software service suite used for file services
which you can also read more about in the supplemental reading

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 7


Configuring Print Services
While our world is moving more and more into the digital space, there are
still aspects of our lives that require good old-fashioned paper.

Many organizations still use printers, and as an IT support specialist, you


have to manage them as you would any other device.
When managing printer IT infrastructure, you need to have a place to
centrally manage all your printers.

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 8


Configuring Print Services
There are a few different ways that printers can be managed.

Setting them up really depends of how many printers you have and how
many people are in your company.

In a small company with less than a hundred people, setting up one or two
commercial printers should be more than enough.

To set up a print server, all you have to do is install a print service on a
server.

Most of operating systems already come with a printer service readily


available. For example, let's look at Windows.

 In the Windows server operating system, there's a Print and Document


Services that can be enabled.
System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 9
Configuring Print Services
All you have to do is add your network printer to the service and install
the drivers for those printers, nice and simple, right?

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 10


Web Servers Revisited

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 11


What is a database server?
When you are in service that operates on the web, you need to have a web server
that serves web pages that clients are requested, like we just covered.
But you may also need to store information.

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 12


Is the website down?
Web servers, and servers in general, are prone to breakage, just like any other
machine.

Some application that can be used to discover and


solve problem: Developer Tools >

Another application that can be used to check about


the status of your website : Is the website down?
How to Check if Your Website is Down
- Method 1 — Checking with Website Planet
- Method 2 — Checking with Host Tracker
- Method 3 — Checking with Site24x7
- Method 4 — Checking with HideMy.name Proxy Server

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 13


The End

System Administration and Maintenance ( Lecture Four ) 14

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