For information about Active Directory, see "Active Directory" in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit Distributed Systems Guide. Active Directory stores security data and authenticates users in a domain environment.
For more information about security, see "Distributed Security" in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit Distributed Systems Guide.
For information about networking, see "Windows 2000 TCP/IP Networking" in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit Core Networking Guide. Understanding networking is important when establishing secure connections.