Customer Reviews

Windows NT and UNIX Integration

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This book is best avoided.

Around 1/3rd of the book is elementary introductory stuff about NT and Unix. The rest is about proprietary versions of Unix and various items of commercial software. The author is employed by SCO and SCO products feature very very very very prominently in this poor excuse for a book. It also shows you pretty pictures of Hummingbird Exceed. It has a worthless discussion of the X Windowing system at a level that moved me to tears of disgust.

Amazingly, Linux has just a few lines. Samba has about one page.

This book is outdated and not worth the shelf space. Save your money.Stick to O'Reilley books. If you absolutely have to read this wretched book, borrow it from some university library.

This is one of three books on Windows NT and UNIX integration I now own. While the book did provide base level information, it was simply incomplete. Better books exist on the topic. Skip this one.

Does not have enought on Linux or NetBSD or FreeBSD.

Instead of writing long paragraphs, all the concepts, usages and examples are very clear and concise. In fact, very few books writing about the NT and UNIX integration. If you have this book, you don't have to buy another one.

This is a good book covering basic issues ... but it is not a comprehensive reference that I would constantly use. As a system administrator, I need answers fast. Other books on the topic are more comprehensive. Still, this is not a bad book either.

The book first describes UNIX and NT on their interesting sides. After that it describes solutions and criticizes them. You'll not find that somewhere else. It's truly worth the money for both the explanations of the OSes and the product descriptions.

This is an excellent book for someone wanting a good solid review of the basics of integrating an NT based network into an existing UNIX network or vise-versa, integrating a UNIX network into an existing NT network. The author provides plenty of details on many different products necessary for integration, with simple concise overviews of the required concepts needed by the user. The author goes above and beyond what the other books currently on the market include by providing leading-edge relevant discussions of some of the latest new technologies.