Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
This chapter explains how to set up your servers so that your
network users have something to access. Before you can set up
a server, you have to determine the purpose of it. Is it going to
be a print server, a file storage server, a remote access server, or a domain controller?
After you have decided how the machine is going to help your network, you must
implement your decision. In this chapter, I'll show you how to set up a print server and
a file server. In addition, I will discuss how to set up permissions and security for these
servers and how you can limit the amount of space your users can have on a server.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are used for
all of the server types in this chapter. Although other operating systems
can be used, this chapter refers only to Windows Server 2012 and
Windows Server 2012 R2.
Understanding File Servers
Before you configure a file server, you must understand what a file server actually does.
File servers
are machines on your network that store data files to share among network
clients. The same machine can be a file server and another type of server. For example, a
machine can both host network files and run Exchange Server 2013. Such a machine would
have both file server and application server functions. (
Application servers
are machines
that host applications used by network clients.)
multiple Server Types on one machine
More than ever, in today's world most IT departments have to worry about budgets.
The problem is that the IT department often has the smallest budget in a company. You
are typically stuck between a rock and a hard place because if your network is running
well, people (including executives) forget about you. This makes it hard when you ask for
anything that may impact the budget.
Because of the lack of funds, often you will leverage one machine to perform many server
tasks. I have seen several companies where the IT department had to have the same
machine running both as an application server and as a file server.
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