From the Back Cover
An end-to-end, practical guide to building and managing your corporate intranet . . .
Hands-On Intranets tells you everything you really need to know to deploy an intranet quickly, securely, and cost-effectivelyand to manage it for maximum payoff.
Sun Microsystems experts, Dasan and Ordorica take you step by step through every aspect of setting up a corporate intranet:
*Implementing DNS, e-mail, and web services.
*Intranet file and print sharing.
*Installing and managing client software.
*Delivering web connectivity.
*Providing remote access.
*Connecting to and working with heterogeneous clients.
*Leveraging new zero-administration clients.
You will learn proven techniques for day-to-day intranet administration, including user account management, troubleshooting, performance and security monitoring, and much more. You will learn how to integrate the protocols and services available for the Solaris server environment with a network comprised of clients and servers running Windows 95 and Windows NT. Finally, Hands-On Intranets shows how you can use Web technology to provide seamless access to critical corporate information.
Policymakers, administrators, developers, and consultants will find Hands-On Intranets to be the essential handbook and reference they need for implementing an intranet of any size.
About the Author
VASANTHAN DASAN is a Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems in Colorado. He worked on intranet products such as Solaris CacheFS, Solstice AutoClient and Solstice PC Networking products. He is better known for introducing the World Wide Web to Sun's internal world wide network.
LUIS ORDORICA worked for several years as a system administrator at Sun Microsystems. Luis went on to teach and write about system and network administration for Sun's employees and customers. He is currently a technical writer for Sun in Colorado.