The SuSE Linux Server (With CD-ROMs)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 600 pages
• Published by: Wiley January 15, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764547658
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764547652
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Product Description
The SuSE Linux Server demonstrates how to: master the ins and outs of Linux installation and configuration; Manage privileged and ordinary users, groups, and disk quotas; Control, monitor, prioritize, and automate programs using various tools; Set up DNS, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, FTP, IRC and SQL servers; Secure your server using firewalls and tools like Satan, Cops, etc.; Design a load-balanced, multi-server Apache-based Web network; Set up Samba and NFS fileserver for your office network.

Book Info
(SUSE Press) The official guide to maintaining a high-performance SuSE Linux system, offering ways to combat challenges such as installation and configuration problems and security difficulties. The CD-ROMs contain a trial version of Linux 7.0, plus other files and scripts. System requirements: Linux-compatible PC w/hard, CD-ROM and 3.5 floppy drives. Softcover. DLC: Client/Server computing.

Reader Reviews
First, I need to make clear that I have not read this book. I am currently trying to use SuSE's configuration files and packet filtering firewall script /sbin/SuSEfirewall to set up IP-masquerading and packet filtering on my four machine home network. The working solution has eluded me for about two weeks now. So, when I saw this book, I went straight to the index looking for SuSEfirewall. Nothing. There was a listing for ipchains, however, so I looked at that. In that section, there is no mention at all of SuSE specific tools for setting up packet filtering, just a discussion of ipchains rulesets which I could get for free from the IPCHAINS how-to at the Linux Documentation Project. The discussion of protecting the firewall from internal machines references the book "Red Hat Linux Network Administration". How SuSE specific is that? Not wanting to pan this book on just this one issue alone, I looked for information on setting up printers (another issue that caused me some frustration in the past). The only mention I could find was in reference to setting up Samba so that Windows machines could use printers on a Linux server. That discussion was a page and half long. No mention of apsfilter or CUPS in the index. Sections which mention using yast to set up a NIC and a network have screen shots, but these are so dark that I had to struggle to see what screen they were taken from. It would have been much better to print them in color, or to just describe them in words. The dark splotches on the screen just seem amateurish. This book may have some good information in it, but I am not going to spend over $30 to find out. SuSE includes a manual with their distribution which is at least as good as this book, and although the distribution might be $15 to $20 more expensive, it also comes with more software.