i've been given an assignment to graduate from college...i have to use internet resources and my own experience to discuss the similarities/differences between the windows and linux platform. since my experience with linux is limited i thought i would ask you. care to help?

i have to discuss
1. user account management
2. file sharing
3. LAN resource access
4. network connectivity and troubleshooting

could anyone shed some light on the subjects for me. one, all, whatever any help would do. any link that you think would really help me would also be appreciated. thanks for your help.

sblair_32

commands for user management...

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/...cruserman.html

file sharing...(not sure if you meant p2p)

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/2684/1/

linux networking...

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/

check the "security" section...

http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.vs.Windows.html

Something, to mention about user account managment.
(Talking in context to Windows 2000 Professional and RedHat Linux 9.0)

First Things first, No password is essential in Windows 2000 Professional Administrator Account (the root account basically) and in Redhat Linux, root account is essential....

Secondly, a "separate" partition may be assigned to an user account in linux which may not be necessarily given in Windows.

Access permission cannot be set for a particular file system in Windows 2000 for any user, but is set automatically in Linux with ext3 filesystem. In other words, a user cannot access other user's file if not in same group(and if the same group, appropriate access must be set).

In linux, login options available at the terminal, whereas not in windows.