2-2 Administration of Resources Part 2

> Connect to local and network print devices.

Manage printers and print jobs

To manage printers you must first have Manage Printers permission.(See below)

1. Double-click My Network Places, and then locate the print server for the printers you want to manage.
2. Double-click the print server, double-click the Printer folder icon on that server, and then click a printer. Change the print server, printer, or printing preference settings as required.

Control access to printers by using permissions.

1. Open Printers.
2. Right-click the printer, click Properties,
3. Click the Security tab.

Existing user or group:

To change or remove permissions, click the name of the user or group and select the appropriate allow or deny permissions.

New user or group:

Click Add. In Name, type the name of the user or group you want to set permissions for, click Add, and then click OK to close the dialog box. In Permissions, click Allow or Deny for each permission you want to allow or deny. Or, to remove the user or group from the permissions list, click Remove.

Connect to an Internet printer.

For Internet printing, you must have Peer Web Services (PWS) on Windows 2000 Professional.

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. In the Address bar, type one of the following:
   
   If you do not know the printer name, type the following:
   
   http://PrintServerName/printers/
   
   For example, type http://W2KPrintSrv1/printers to receive a page listing all the printers, and then click the printer you want.
   
   If you know the printer name, type its URL: http://PrintServerName/PrinterName/
   
   For example, type http://W2KPrintSrv1/HPColor5/ to go directly to that printer's page.
3. When viewing the printer's page, click Connect to connect to that printer.

Connect to a local print device.

1. From control panel open the printers folder
2. Double-click add printer
3. Select local printer, follow the print wizard directions.

> Configure and manage file systems.

Convert from one file system to another file system.

Disk Management, is a graphical tool for managing disks and volumes. It supports partitions, logical drives, new dynamic volumes, and remote disk management. To open Disk Management, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under Storage, click Disk Management.

Format command

In Windows 2000 the format command creates a new root directory and file system for the disk. It can also check for bad areas on the disk, and it can delete all data on the disk. For Windows 2000 to be able to use a new disk, you must first use this command to format the disk.

You must have Administrator rights to format a hard disk. When you use the format command to format a hard disk, Windows 2000 displays a message of the following form before attempting to format the hard disk:

WARNING, ALL DATA ON non removable DISK

DRIVE x: WILL BE LOST!

Proceed with Format (Y/N)?_

format volume [/fs:file-system] [/v:label] [/q]

volume:

Specifies the mount point, volume name, or drive letter of the drive you want to format.

/fs:file-system

Specifies the file system to use, FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. Floppy disks can use only the FAT file system.

/v:label

Specifies the volume label.

/q

You can speed up the formatting process by using the /q switch. Use this switch only if there are no bad sectors on your hard disk.

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Configure file systems by using NTFS, FAT32, or FAT.

FAT File allocation table refers to a disk format, which is a way of organizing the storage space on a hard disk. The table organizes information about the files on the hard disk, representing each one as a chain of numbers that identifies where each part of a file is located. The operating system uses it to look up a file and find which clusters that file is written to on the hard disk.

FAT16 Supports drives up to 2 gigabytes in size. Fat16 is the most compatible file system, not only can all windows versions use it but many other OS's also.

FAT32 Supports drives of up to 2 terabytes in size. FAT32 also reduces the cluster size on large drives, freeing up more space.

Cluster sizes of FAT16 and FAT32

NTFS4 New Technology File System used with win NT 4 provides greater security than FAT, and better disk compression. Support for large hard disks, up to 2 terabytes and as drive size increases, performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.

NTFS5 Updated NTFS for windows 2000, The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for use with Windows 2000.

NTFS has all of the basic capabilities of FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT 32 file systems:

• Better file security with encrypting file system (EFS)
• Better disk compression.
• Support for large hard disks, and as drive size increases, performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.

HPFS High Performance File System is the file system used with OS/2. Windows NT 3.51 supported partitions formatted with HPFS , but it did not support formatting new drives as HPFS. In Windows NT 4.0, the support for HPFS was eliminated.

File Systems that windows supports