Network and System Integration for Dummies (With CD-ROM)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 356 pages
• Published by: For Dummies November 15, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764507745
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764507748
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description
Mixed networks confuse, infuriate, and often ruin the days and haunt the nights of network administrators everywhere. If you’ve been tasked with building or administering a mixed network, you know what it takes to get computers running competing operating systems—such as Windows, Mac and Linux, for instance—working together. It requires expert advice, up-to-the-minute technical information and tested-in-the-trenches solutions.

A survival guide for anyone called upon to build or manage a mixed network, Network and System Integration For Dummies gives you all that and more. With this ready reference in your corner, you’ll have the confidence and know-how needed to:

• Design and set up a mixed network in less time and with fewer headaches
• Understand and master the differences between dueling platforms
• Get your machines communicating like old chums
• Anticipate problems before they happen
• Troub leshoot your system
• Administer your network from any location
• Be prepared with proven solutions to most mixed network challenges

Network and System Integration For Dummies gives you easy-to-understand answers to all your questions about resource sharing, connectivity protocols, and other critical issues, including:

• How competing operating systems work
• Adding a new NOS to an old network
• Testing network connectivity
• Networking concepts that all machines can handle
• Sharing files and printers across platforms
• Using Message Transfer Agents to deliver email
• Setting up printers, external drives and other networked devices
• Centralizing control with Auditing Server Resources
• Managing users on a mixed network
• Securing a mixed network

And just to make your job that much easier, this book comes with a bonus CD-ROM featuring:

• Diskcheck—a drive space monitoring utility
• Tripwire 2.0 for Linux—a security program
• NWQuota—a NetWare utility form managing the size of home directories

Offering proven solutions to most mixed network headaches, this book is a lifeline for network administrators at the frontlines of the battle for network and system integration.

Book Info
(IDG Books) A friendly guide to integrating multiple network operating systems, and making them work together smoothly. Topics covered include testing network connectivity, using message transfer agents to deliver e-mail, and handling security issues. The CD-ROM offers helpful utilities for drivers, security and managing directories. Softcover.

Reader Reviews
Depending on what you are looking for, this book could be highly useful or not at all. For giving an overview of all of the various things that exist in the integration world, it would probably be quite good. But in terms of actually teaching one how to accomplish any real-world tasks, it is lacking a lot of basic information. As an example, it might present all of the various hardware (hubs, switches, routers, etc.) that one might encounter and some of the cables you can plug into them--but never mentions in what order they go in or what they really accomplish. But now you at least now the names of everything and can go out and get further reference on those topics. I would also note that this was written in mid-2000 so I suspect that much of the data is out of date. Though since there is very little hard data, this really is not a large issue.