IT planners and systems administrators familiar with basic Solaris system administration functions who know some NIS, NIS+, and DNS will find this a useful guide to implementing corporate naming services infrastructure and installing and managing the directory server and supporting services. LDAP concepts are taught in the course of the guide which instructs the reader in Solaris naming services, its architecture and security models, iPlanet directory server installation and configuration, Solaris 8 Native LDAP and NIS extensions configurations, capacity planning and performance tuning, deploying available LDAP data services, preventive maintenance, managing and consolidating directory services, and interoperability with Windows. Both authors are affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
TOM BIALASKI is a staff engineer in the Enterprise Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He began his career at Sun as a Systems Engineer in 1984 and has held various customer-focused engineering positions since then. Tom is also the author of the Sun BluePrint Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators.
MICHAEL HAINES is a staff engineer in the Enterprise Services Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He has been at Sun Microsystems for 10 years and started his career in the CTE Engineering Group. Since then he has held various engineering positions within Sun Microsystems.