Mastering NetWare 6 [Paperback]

James E. Gaskin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0782140238 | ISBN-13: 978-0782140231

The Best Way to Move up to NetWare 6
NetWare 6 is a major release in the history of NetWare, providing improvements that will be appreciated by users and administrators alike. Mastering NetWare 6 is the latest edition of the NetWare resource long recognized for its comprehensiveness, practicality, and humor. You'll benefit from James Gaskin's instruction on standard NetWare techniques, in-depth examinations of new and advanced features, and the tips and tricks for which he's famous. If you're serious about getting all you can out of the latest version of NetWare, you'll set out with this book by your side.
Coverage includes:
* Setting up your NetWare network
* Upgrading from an earlier version of NetWare
* Making the best use of NDS eDirectory
* Setting up network security
* Taking advantage of NetWare's TCP/IP support
* Setting up and managing printers
* Using NetWare's Web services
* Creating, filtering, and deleting NDS objects
* Using NetWare's browser-based and other utilities
* Troubleshooting your NetWare network

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The Best Way to Move up to NetWare 6

NetWare 6 is a majorrelease in the history of NetWare, providing improvements that will beappreciated by users and administrators alike. Mastering NetWare 6 is thelatest edition of the NetWare resource long recognized for its comprehensiveness,practicality, and humor. You’ll benefit from James Gaskin’sinstruction on standard NetWare techniques, in-depth examinations of new andadvanced features, and the tips and tricks for which he’s famous. Ifyou’re serious about getting all you can out of the latest version ofNetWare, you’ll set out with this book by your side.

Coverageincludes:

• Setting up your NetWare network
• Upgrading froman earlier version of NetWare
• Making the best use of NDSeDirectory
• Setting up network security
• Taking advantage ofNetWare’s TCP/IP support
• Setting up and managing printers
• UsingNetWare’s Web services
• Creating, filtering, and deleting NDSobjects
• Using NetWare’s browser-based and other utilities
• Troubleshooting your NetWare network

About the Author

James E. Gaskin is the author of many books written about real networks for real network managersand power users. He has been installing, configuring, and explaining NetWare since 1986, beginning with Advanced NetWare 4.61a, which shipped on a handful of 5.25-inch low-density floppy disks for the hot new server, the IBM XT.

Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (March 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782140238
• ISBN-13: 978-0782140231
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,373,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best computer/technical books I've ever seen..., March 19, 2002

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P. Loshin (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering NetWare 6 (Paperback)

Gaskin really knows NetWare, and he really knows how to write.
His prose is clear, precise, and full of wit.

Even better, this book is worth every penny--other publishers
might have padded this out to 1200 or even 1500 pages by
inflating the typeface and sticking in lots of extra padding
material (lists of RFCs, lots of other irrelevant stuff). SYBEX
had the good sense to keep it at "only" 800+ pages.

The fonts are small enough that you can get figures and text all
on two facing pages so you don't have to keep flipping back and
forth just to get one concept down.

The glossary is the best and most complete I've ever seen,
giving detailed and complete definitions instead of the quick
one or two-liners that most authors settle for.

The "In a Hurry" sections are awesome--Gaskin puts in just the
essential steps to get NetWare features going, so if you don't
have time to read through all the details, theory, and other
stuff in the text you can get something workin, NOW, and then
read up on it later.

Overall, an incredibly good book.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Novell Novice extreme, April 28, 2002

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Compudoc "D.Gardner" (Corpus Christi, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering NetWare 6 (Paperback)

... Bought this book and started reading. WOW!!!. Had the OS installed, configured, setup and ready to put on line in 7 hours. Remember, this was done with only the book as a guide. Started on page one and went through the initial partitioning, install, setup and then took the time to figure out the migration routines for pulling the NT system info to the new Novell system. All with the aid of this book. One problem I encountered was the assumption that the author makes that if your installing Novell, you already know the basics and the mundane details are not needed...WRONG!!!. I don't hold this against the author as he is absolutely correct in not wasting time on the basics, however, for me it was a nightmare when I got to the iMANAGER part of the licensing and configurations. DUH!!! on my part but I could not figure out how to launch iMANAGER on the workstation with CLIENT installed. Novells website had errors on iMANAGER as well as the book had NO information on how to find or launch the iMANAGER. A lot of talk about how wonderful it was but unfortunately, I have never seen the screen with the iPRINT etc listed on the left side of the window. Hummm!!! Novell apologized for the confusion and walked me through the problem and the book took over from there.

Would I recommend this book? Absolutely...No book can be perfect and especially when someone with absolutely NO experience in an operating system such as Novell is attempting to setup a server. Thanks for the effort in creating this book and I will be reading it from cover to cover. PS...it comes with a 90 day eval of Netware 6. Will put it on a test system at the office and play with it for a while. Especially when Microsoft gets done with their new licensing program in July. All my computers will be running Unix, Linux, or Novell with publishing from Star Office. Good luck all. If you are already familiar with Novell, than this book is a great source of information on updates and changes from Novell 5 to present. If you are new? Then this book will definetly get you up and going with a little support and imagination.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor job on netware 6, July 23, 2002

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Vernon Sandusky "vern" (Vacaville, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering NetWare 6 (Paperback)

I have the netware 5.1 book by Gaskin. That book was excellent which is why I bought this one, but this one [isn't].

The text is too small (about font size 10)so unless you are 20 something, you will find reading very tiring. The screen shots are nearly illegible because they are so tiny.

This book is too difficult to read for the beginning user and lacks the depth and detail needed by the advanced reader for use as a reference book. The examples on ConsoleOne and NWAdmin don't tell you where to find them or how to set them up or how to add snap-ins. It seems to be unncessarily detailed in some areas and missing vital information in other areas. It is definitely not the book for someone studying for the CNE 6 exam.

In short, I regret buying the book.