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By Michael Bartosh, Ryan Faas
May 2005
Pages: 846
ISBN 10: 0-596-00635-7 |
ISBN 13: 9780596006358
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
If you've ever wondered how to safely manipulate Mac OS X Panther Server's many underlying configuration files or needed to explain AFP permission mapping--this book's for you. From the command line to Apple's graphical tools, the book provides insight into this powerful server software. Topics covered include installation, deployment, server management, web application services, data gathering, and more.
Full Description
- Installation
- Deployment
- Server management
- Directory services
- Web application services
- System interaction
- Data gathering
- Stress planning
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readers missed something?, October 03 2005
Other reader reviewers here have asked where Tiger is in this volume...but this question is completely irrelevant in a Panther Server book. Did anyone here read the title? The description of this book is clearly aimed at Panther Server. Not Tiger Server.
Why would someone buy a Panther Server book to give them guidance for v.1 of Tiger Server...?
In most cases, I would wonder about making an abrupt in-line transition to a brand new server platform. If you need the book, wait for it. It will come.
Better than others BUT, June 14 2005
I found the Visual QuickPro Guide for OX Server was useless in proper configuration of Mac OSX server in a mixed domain with Windows 2003 server AND with Mac Open Directory being Prime controller. This Book Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration gives alot of attention to issues like this.
Now for the downside. We had already converted to Tiger server because of the weakness of Apple's SBM/CFIS(Windows) compatability.
With Tiger there are many new things AND new configuration steps. This is the downside of this book coming out when it did. I could have used this book better last year.
Where is Tiger in this???, May 29 2005
Submitted by Anonymous Reader [Respond | View]
I agree. There are new services in Tiger (iChat server, Jabber, Blog server) that would be useful in an education environment. I have put off upgrading some of my servers and waiting for Tiger to correct some of the problems with Panther. At least a mention of a forthcoming upgrade or a website for additional chapters would be appreciated. Even a statement that XX% of this book is useful in Tiger would at least give us an idea of it's current usefullness.
Where is Tiger in this???, May 07 2005
Submitted by Anonymous Reader [Respond | View]
This book's description makes no mention of whether it covers OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Considering it came out days after Tiger (and of course Tiger has been available to authors and developers for months: I've had it since early betas) this is odd: everyone buying OS X books now will want them to be up-to-date.
If it doesn't cover Tiger, why did they wait until after Tiger's release to release this book? (No NDA would be broken if it covers only up to Panther!)
And if it *does* cover Tiger, why don't they mention it?
I'm guessing Tiger didn't change OS X Server so dramatically as to make a book like this useless if it doesn't touch on Tiger, but there must be something in Tiger relevant to the subject of the book. O'Reilly's reputation is to release their books when they're good and ready, and not to rush them, so why not delay this a month or so and update it, if the reason for waiting until May was that it was just getting finished?
There's no logical inference we can make, so please tell us how Tiger fits into this!
Media reviews "Essential Mac OS X Server Administration, written by Michael Bartosh and Ryan Faas, has been eagerly anticipated by the OS X Panther Server community. The wait is finally over and the authors have satisfied their audience with a meticulously written and detailed volume on OS X Server administration... Essential Mac OS X Server Administration is an indispensable contribution to the education of the IT professional."
--Mary Norbury-Glaser, Slashdot.org, June 2005
"In a word? Meticulous... I consider this Panther Server Administration as a baseline book for anyone remotely interested in enterprise-level server management--and the WinTel Sysadmin excuse of, 'it won't work' will no longer be acceptable--or tolerated. At 848 pages, this book isn't just 'Essential,' it is 'Comprehensive' due to its indepth detail. Now there is no excuse either for not going to an Xserve environment."
--Robert Pritchett, MacCompanion, July 2005
"I received my copy of [Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration] today, and boy was it worth the wait. It is of the highest quality, and the amount of detail and thorough explanations ensures that almost every Mac system admin stands to learn something from it...I've been doing Mac server administration since 1994, and this book is the first of its kind for Apple server documentation. I hope Michael and Ryan write many more!"
--Dave Walcott, Walcott Consulting, June 2005
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