Solaris Administration: A Beginner's Guide (Network Professional's Library) - Softcover

Watters, Paul A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072131551 ISBN 13: 9780072131550

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001

Synopsis

This guide covers a wide range of issues for the new administrative user of the Solaris program, looking at the user, resources, the server and network management. There are real world examples of configuration files and the installation of third-party software packages, without the assumption that the reader is a "Solaris guru". Eight pages of blueprints cover administration differences between Solaris and Linux, and Solaris and Windows 2000.

About this title

About the Author

Paul A. Watters (Oakhurst, Austailia,) recently completed his PhD in computer science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He specializes in building e-commerce and Internet information systems, based on Java, Solaris and open standards like CORBA. He is also a columnist and author for the trade journal Inside Solaris, and is lead author of the Solaris 8 title Solaris 8: The Complete Reference, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and co-author of the SuSE Linux Bible, published by IDG.

From the Back Cover

Set up, run, and support a Solaris system using this practical guide

Install, configure, and manage Solaris across your network with this hands-on comprehensive resource. You'll find everything you need to get up and running with Solaris including both Intel and SPARC versions of Solaris 8. Beginning with a Solaris overview, this practical guide will show you how to install the system, set up Internet services, build and distribute third-party software, and much more. And, the handy 8-page blueprint section explains the differences between Solaris and both Linux and Windows 2000. If you are a professional administrator familiar with other operating systems and new to Solaris and want to introduce Solaris into your network, then you will find this book invaluable.

-Learn to install Solaris 8 both SPARC and Intel versions
-Understand single host administration and manage jobs and processes
-Set up Internet services and configure Sendmail
-Secure a Solaris system and evaluate security risks
-Manage, add, and modify users and groups
-Configure the DNS server and allocate hostnames and IP addresses
-Prepare a network for DHCP
-Manage both storage and print services, and restore data

Edition details

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072131551
• ISBN 13: 9780072131550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436