Linux and Windows: A Guide to Interoperability [Paperback]

Ed Bradford (Author), Lou Mauget (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 14, 2001

Increasingly, companies depend on a mixture of Linux and Windows systems to address their enterprise IT requirements with maximum performance and value. In this book, a team of world-class experts in cross-platform environments offer comprehensive guidance for managing Linux and Windows together. Ed Bradford and Lou Mauget cover everything from network planning and configuration to scripting, performance tuning, and backup, presenting today's best practices for maximizing interoperability -- and minimizing hassle. In Part I, Bradford and Mauget walk through planning and deploying networks incorporating Windows 2000/XP and Linux technologies. Next, they walk through key tools for scripting, software development, and optimization in both Linux and Windows environments. Linux and Windows 2000 then systematically addresses a wide range of interoperability issues: user interface, system administration, network management, enterprise domain design, security, network file systems, printing, directory services integration, backup/restore, remote access, thin client solutions, Internet/intranet services, and security.

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From the Back Cover

• Configuring, programming, and administering mixed Linux/Windows environments
• Practical Linux/Windows network design and implementation
• Covers all key interoperability issues
• Internet/intranet, directory services, backup/restore, security, remote access, file/print, and much more

Enterprises depend increasingly on both Linux and Windows technologies to maximize the performance and value of their IT infrastructures. Now one book presents all of today's best practices for managing Linux and Windows together. In Linux and Windows Interoperability Guide, leading consultants Ed Bradford and Lou Mauget deliver comprehensive guidance for the entire IT lifecycle: network planning, configuration, deployment, application development, scripting, system administration, optimization, and much more.

• Includes up-to-the-minute coverage of Windows XP and Windows 2000
• Covers every key Windows/Linux interoperability issue
• Delivering Web, intranet, and other TCP/IP-based services
• Providing remote access and thin-client support
• Managing software and user interface compatibility
• Integrating and streamlining backup and restore
• Designing enterprise domains for maximum performance and security
• Integrating directory services to provide single-sign-on and easy management
• Providing robust file and print services

Linux and Windows Interoperability Guide—it's your total solutions resource for maximizing the reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of any Linux/Windows environment.

About the Author

ED BRADFORD, IBM Senior Architect, has 24 years of experience in the computer industry, beginning at Bell Laboratories where he worked with UNIX in the mid 1970s. After contributing to several UNIX and supercomputer startups, he has worked with Windows enterprise technologies since 1993.

LOU MAUGET, co-author of e-Directories: Enterprise Software, Solutions, and Services, is a senior architect at CrossLogic Corporation, where he mentors enterprise clients in designing server-based cross-platform applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (December 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130324779
• ISBN-13: 978-0130324771
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,069,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars useless, August 29, 2003

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Patrick Thompson (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Linux and Windows: A Guide to Interoperability (Paperback)

This is a truly useless book. Not even any good as toilet paper (too coarse- no, I didn't try).

It contains nothing of value as far I can tell. It won't tell you how to configure Samba for file and print sharing with windows. It mainly just prattles on with a bunch of crap about some 'fictional' company that is the purpose for confuring windows and linux to coexist.

Seriously, this book stinks. Perhaps it's just too philosophical for me? But then I like my books to have a function and purpose and get down to brass tacks with the concrete, useable knowledge. Not drivel.

Give this book a VERY wide berth and save your cash.