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Norton Ghost 6.01 Tony Brett Corpus Christi College OUCS ITSS Seminar Norton Ghost Overview What is Ghost? Why is this useful? How does it work? Advanced Features (1) Advanced Features (2) Multicasting Advanced Features (3) Applications (1) Applications (2) Replacing Hard Disks Applications (3) Self-healing standalone Applications (4) Perfect uninstall! How to get a copy of Ghost Similar Products Questions? Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost * What is Ghost? What can Ghost do? Why is this useful? How does it work? Advanced Features Applications How to get hold of Ghost Other similar products Product for managing whole disks or partitions Supports many file systems (Fat 16/32, NTFS etc.) Can take a snapshot, writing or reading file to/from: Ghost Server Network Drive Tape Device ZIP/JAZ, CD-R(W) etc. etc. Through parallel port Quick and easy replacement of hard disks. Configuration libraries can be kept so machines can be used in multiple configurations Change of OS/File system on PC at will Management of configuration on public machines - easier than locking down Can go back to good configuration quickly if install breaks Runs as a DOS application - Menu or command-line switches Will make images of local disk or just partitions of it Will replace disk or partition contents from image file Image file can be on a server, removable media (with spanning), other partition or a CD Ghost Explorer Can explore and modify image files Multicasting - Server runs on DOS, Win32 or Netware 5 (4.11sp7) Used to send data to identical hardware workstations all at once OUCS Lecture Rooms, Corpus Computing Suite Packet Drivers (PlugPlay gives problems!) DHCP to give IP addresses Not through routers IP multicasting clones all workstations at once Wake-on-LAN technology (PXE) Ghost Walker Identical machines cloned will clash on the network(with MS Networking) so... Allows changing of: SIDs for NT Workstation (NetBIOS) name with NT and 9x Username Domain/Workgroup TCP/IP