This book describes how to build a small-scale LAN using Red Hat Linux 6.0 as a server on networked, PC-Unix, and other hardware platforms. It includes well-diagrammed and documented explanations of everything from basic Linux knowledge and how to install and set up Linux as an intranet file server, to managing Linux operations and security. The instructions and explanations are presented in an informatinve, easy-to-follow visual format suitable for both beginners and intermediaate computer users. A topic-related comprehensive glossary and command reference are also included.
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Heavily visual books have become popular lately, but mainly for elementary subjects. In Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book, a team of authors and designers brings the picture-intensive approach to Linux. It's a welcome move that simultaneously heralds Linux's improving ease of use and the willingness of the computing mainstream to investigate the operating system.
The authors have hit their subject at precisely the right angle too. By choosing to use the Visual Black Book style on Linux-based intranet servers, they nail the application that's most interesting to the small-office users who are their audience. This book will help the casual network administrator get a Linux machine working as a file, printer, Web, and electronic mail server.
The format relies on illustrating sequential steps with a combination of line drawings, screen shots, and command-line listings. The text that describes what's going on in the steps includes callouts, so there's never any question about what part of the illustration is relevant. The format isn't great for communicating conceptual information, but it will help you accomplish the basic tasks quickly and enable you to look into denser reference on a more solid footing. --David Wall
Topics covered: Building a local area network (LAN) server with Linux (Red Hat Linux 6 appears in the examples), installation, basic command-line operations, users and groups, and heterogeneous networking with information on Samba for Windows and netatalk for Mac OS. Coverage of specific services includes the Apache Web server and electronic mail with sendmail and qpopper.
About the Author
Hidenori Tsuji (Japan) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Tokyo University researching next-generation high-performance microprocessor architecture. He supports himself with various part-time work, including managing Unix workstations, configuring networks, programming, and writing books. He has also written A Practical Guide to Dial-Up Routers (Softbank Press). Takashi Watanabe (Japan) started in the computer world by spending half of his time at elementary school writing frustratingly dysfunctional sample programs in FamilyBasic. After toying with N88BASIC and MS-DOS, in 1996 he made the move to Linux. At present, he is a graduate student at Waseda University and uses Linux at home and Solaris and FreeBSD at school.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The worst book about Linux that I have read to date.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book: A Complete Visual Guide to Building a LAN Using Linux as the OS (Paperback)
I purchased this book knowing that there is a wealth of quality information available for free about Linux, but I was hoping that this would be a convenient reference documenting a variety of services authoritatively.Sadly, this book is riddled with an apalling number of factual errors, near constant misleading comments, and nigh-unreadably strained English. The factual errors for the most part won't get the reader into trouble right away (though there are some worrying errors), but this added to the cookbook approach can provide either a dangerous feeling of adequacy or a voodoo approach to system administration - "I just did it this way because the book told me to". I cannot encourage people to buy this book; it is very inconsistent in practices, it gives directions without rationale, and it gives no pointers to places where adequate documentation can be found. I would give this book negative stars if I could, as I consider this book harmful to some and useful to none.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beginner to Intermediate Good Reference on Linux,
By Yuki N. (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book: A Complete Visual Guide to Building a LAN Using Linux as the OS (Paperback)
This book is really cool w/lots of Info and nice visual format. It covers pretty much everything from basic Linux to managing Linux operations and security. It also has easy-to-understand-diagrammed explanations which approach is quite unique. If you want something different to understand Linux, try this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best picture book to get Linux/Samba running,
By "cat568" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Setting Up a Linux Intranet Server Visual Black Book: A Complete Visual Guide to Building a LAN Using Linux as the OS (Paperback)
I'm glad I didn't read the reviews before getting this book. I needed to get Linux running first, then I'd learn it later. This book works exactly as planned. Pictures step you through getting Samba to work, and I took an old 486 and made it work on our network. Now I've got a box on which I can learn Linux, and it's already useful on my network.
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