Mac OS X Server Administrator's Guide W/CD (Hardcover)

~ Andrew Russell (Author), John Welch (Author)

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Product Description

This book, targeted toward the more experienced Mac user, is an advanced guide to administering Mac networks and other networks that incorporate Mac machines. If you are a Mac administrator who is unfamiliar with UNIX and the new OS and who needs expert advice on working with the new UNIX kernel, this book is for you. You will quickly get up to speed with UNIX commands you need, leaving more time to focus on networking your Macs. This book also covers the most often used Mac OS features, including AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocol stacks.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Premier Press; 1 edition (September 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761524150
• ISBN-13: 978-0761524151
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,789,686 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is outdated..., July 25, 2001

By A Customer

This book covers the older version of Mac OS X and is almost irrelevant in some cases to Mac OS X v2. Although it did help me out in some spots, there were a lot of things that I had to get from discussion boards to answer. At most, it is a run through of what to expect. But don't expect it to be anything like the new version of OS X server.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too little, too late..., October 11, 2000

By	Todd Woodward (Springfield, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The release of "Mac OS X Server Administrators Guide" is the first of its kind for this platform and I'm sure much anticipated by some. However, I have to feel for the authors, Andrew G. Russell and John Welch, because they are about a year too late and caught right before the transition to Mac OS X. (As of this writing Mac OS X Public Beta is available for purchase.)

While I found the Administrator's Guide a well written and thorough book, my expectations were not met by a long shot. The authors spent more time and chapters than necessary discussing "A Peek Inside the Mach Kernel","Network Preparation" and "Understanding TCP/IP." They completely gloss over NetInfo, a very powerful network information management tool at the heart of Mac OS X Server, as well as WebObjects. They are only mentioned a few times and not discussed in-depth.

If you are using Mac OS X Server for anything but NetBoot and Apple File Services, you will be dissapointed. The Mac OS X Server user community has done a much better job cobbling together information and experiences on the web than this book is worth.

If you want a very simple "reference" book to sit on your shelf for occasional use--the type Apple Computer should have included with Mac OS X Server in the first place--then by all means buy it.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should be recalled by the Publisher, June 6, 2003

By	A. Macguy (Livingston, MT USA) - See all my reviews

This book is (apparently) an early attempt to describe the setup, configuration and administration of Apple's OS X server. This kind of book is much needed but this one fails miserably because it is so woefully out-of-date. It does not address 10.2 Jaguar Server and, in fact, most of the screen captures and artwork are OS 9. When it does attempt to develop a subject it does so so lightly that it's almost a hoax. Avoid this book. Save your money. Look elsewhere. Print and read the Mac OS X Server Administrator's Guide that comes free on the 10.2 Server CD. It is ten times the book that this one is.