Windows NT 4.0 Demo

Windows NT: Brief overview

• Operating system for pentium and alpha based machines

• Multi tasking operating system• Multi-account operating system

– Potentially truly multi user with Windows NT Terminal server

Benefits of Windows NT4

• More reliable/stable than Windows 95/98• Provides more security than Windows 98• Microsoft claims it is faster for certain tasks than

Windows 98

But...

• More resources than Windows 95/98– NT4: Pentium with 16 meg (32 meg recommended)

– Windows98: 486/66 with 16 meg

• Hardware compatibility is an issue• For differences between NT and 95 see

– http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/eval/ProductCompare/Windows95/techdiff.asp

Different flavours of NT4

• NT4 Workstation• NT4 Server

– Includes services such as

– file & printing services

– web services

– application services

– management services

Windows NT4 Workstation Demo

• The basic user interface– Similar to Windows 95/98

• Creating users• Setting privileges

Logging in

• On starting the machine confronted with a log in screen

• Need a valid user name and a password• On logging in you get your own directory and

application settings (like UNIX)• Once logged on it appears like Win 9x

User Interface

User Interface

Creating users and setting privileges

Scenario

Darryn has started a software development group.

A set of files for the project will be stored in c:\Software Development Project

The group consists of software developer and software testers.

Software Developers can add new files but not alter existing ones.

Software testers can view files but not alter existing or add new files.

Initally there are two new members: John, a software developer, and Fred a tester.

Scenario

Scenario

Step 1

• Log in as administrator• Create user “johnw”• Create user “fred”• Create groups for software developers• Create groups for software testers• Add users to groups

Starting the User Manager

Creating a new user..

Creating a new user

Creating a new user

Results of creating a user..

Creating groups

Creating a group..

Creating a group..

Results of creating groups..

Step 2

• Log in as Darryn• Change permissions for Software Development

Folder

Open properties for folder..

Properties for the folder

Security properties for the folder

File permissions

Result of adding properties for Testers and Developers

Comments

• Added groups and users for a local machine– Can set groups and users for a domain

• Altered file permissions for a directory– File permissions can be set for individual files

• Altered file permissions on a local machine– Can alter permissions on a network file server

The future: Windows 2000

• Different versions include:– Windows 2000 Professional

– Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition

– Windows 2000 Advanced Server

– Windows 2000 Datacentre Server

• Microsoft’s recommended spec– Pentium 300 and 64 meg of RAM

• Merging of Windows 98 and NT