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Windows Nt & Unix: Administration, Coexistence, Integration & Migration
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Author: G. Robert Williams, Ellen Beck Gardner
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 0201185369
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (March, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 112,652
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Superior Reference
This is a great book for professional system administrators. I could easily toss out a half dozen other reference books on UNIX and NT because of the complete and accurate info in this book. Almost 800 pages of pure fact.
Rating: 2 out of 5
A terrible disappointment
This book takes on a VERY ambitious topic. The integration of UNIX with Windows NT is a thorny issue...both operating systems require dedicated study to truly master, and mastering both is quite likely impossible. Add to that trying to integrate the two and the job requires a modern-day Renaissance man. Given this, I was expecting this book to fall a bit short of its goal of enabling sysadmins to manage and integrate their NT and UNIX systems. Instead it fell HUGELY short. The general description of UNIX contains a large number of straight-up factual errors that any junior sysadmin should be able to spot. I don't know how it ever made it past any technical editor. I am less familiar with NT than with UNIX, but the overview of NT seemed to be reasonably accurate, although shallow and rather devoid of useful information. The remaining chapters on running both systems are not so bad, but they too suffer from an overabundance of text with a glaring scarcity of useful information. A general system administration primer on UNIX combined with one on NT will probably offer far more insights into the administration of a heterogeneous system (containing UNIX and NT) than will any of the information in this book. The one redeeming feature (why this review is for *2* stars instead of 1) is the command references that make up nearly the second half of the book. First is a list of UNIX commands and descriptions, then a list of NT commands (or procedures for the GUI-based tasks) and descriptions. The lists are fairly complete, generally factually accurate, and contain interesting cross-references (pointing out what might be relevant to know about NT in the description of the UNIX commands, for example). The book may be worth the purchase just for these two sections. It's just too bad I read through the first half of the book before I got to them.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Source for Both NT and UNIX
I run a technical education company that specializes in training both UNIX and Windows NT administrators and developers. This book will be used in our future classes. It addresses all the key fundamentals of both operating systems. As a reference for either UNIX or Windows NT alone, this book is good for any system administrator. As reference for interoperability, it completely reviews every major concept, command and utility in a very understandable manner.
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