Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book: A Complete Visual Guide to Building a LAN Using Linux as the OS - Softcover

Tsuji, Hide; Watanabe, Takashi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576105687 ISBN 13: 9781576105689

Publisher: Coriolis Group, 1999

Synopsis

An instruction manual for setting up Linux-based servers on networked, PC-Unix, and other hardware platforms. Aimed at beginning to intermediate computer users, the material covers basic Linux knowledge, operations and security, and other information pertinent to intranet file servers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review

Heavily visual books have become popular lately, but mainly for elementary subjects. In Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book, a team of authors and designers brings the picture-intensive approach to Linux. It's a welcome move that simultaneously heralds Linux's improving ease of use and the willingness of the computing mainstream to investigate the operating system.

The authors have hit their subject at precisely the right angle too. By choosing to use the Visual Black Book style on Linux-based intranet servers, they nail the application that's most interesting to the small-office users who are their audience. This book will help the casual network administrator get a Linux machine working as a file, printer, Web, and electronic mail server.

The format relies on illustrating sequential steps with a combination of line drawings, screen shots, and command-line listings. The text that describes what's going on in the steps includes callouts, so there's never any question about what part of the illustration is relevant. The format isn't great for communicating conceptual information, but it will help you accomplish the basic tasks quickly and enable you to look into denser reference on a more solid footing. --David Wall

Topics covered: Building a local area network (LAN) server with Linux (Red Hat Linux 6 appears in the examples), installation, basic command-line operations, users and groups, and heterogeneous networking with information on Samba for Windows and netatalk for Mac OS. Coverage of specific services includes the Apache Web server and electronic mail with sendmail and qpopper.

About the Author

Hidenori Tsuji (Japan) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Tokyo University researching next-generation high-performance microprocessor architecture. He supports himself with various part-time work, including managing Unix workstations, configuring networks, programming, and writing books. He has also written A Practical Guide to Dial-Up Routers (Softbank Press). Takashi Watanabe (Japan) started in the computer world by spending half of his time at elementary school writing frustratingly dysfunctional sample programs in FamilyBasic. After toying with N88BASIC and MS-DOS, in 1996 he made the move to Linux. At present, he is a graduate student at Waseda University and uses Linux at home and Solaris and FreeBSD at school.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coriolis Group
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1576105687
• ISBN 13: 9781576105689
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256