Customer Reviews

Mastering Netware 5

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James has done an excellent job of covering the new features of Netware 5. Unfortunately if you are looking for down and dirty "how to" information you will be vastly sorry. I don't recommend this book for the experienced Netware admin or engineer.

This book is a super-duper one-volume covering about everything in Netware 5. With guidance from this book and a small knowhow of Netware-working, you can easily setup a brand new Netware 5 network with all needed software. The book is easy to read, which make it fast to look through and detailed enough to dig deep into special matters. The book also contains a very useful glossary and the "In-a-hurry" guidances are well planned. I bought this book to upgrade a NW 3.x network, and it covers it all!

Thanks to the author. I'd much rather READ five or six hundred pages than trudge through fewer pages of just detail. And I've successfully relied on this book to take my business from Netware 3.2 to version 5 - I know I'll need more info, but this has been a fine start.

I boughth this book because it was (Jan99) the only admin book about NW5. I'm disappointed. If you are new to Netware that's a good first book for you but if you are a CNE, experienced ...etc. than look somewhere else (e.g. Netware5 Administrator's Handbook) This book lacks details about everything in NW5, it is not the HOW-TO book that I need.

I've read this book from cover to cover. I find it very helpful with it's step-by-step descriptions of various tasks dealing with NetWare 5. It is much better than the Clarke NetWare 4 and 5 books. There are some details lacking, but fundamentally, this book will be usefull long after you've read it (unlike the Clarke books). I enjoyed the style of writing and the pace was very good. Mr Gaskin managed to break the chapters into very logical parts and even broke down the subchapters very well also. This makes finding the information you need much easier.

A useful reference book, the only book that I find info and explanations on installing/configuring NDPS printing.

James put together a comprehensive review of Netware 5, but the book lacks details for implementation. If one is looking for a overview of Netware 5 this is the book.

The content of this book is a review of NetWare 4.x and gives you some glimpses of the changes in NetWare 5. Certain areas are well written such as the setup of DHCP and DNS. Products that install on top of NetWare 5 (i.e. Bordermanager) are discussed but lack detail.