Linux: Networking for Your Office

Roderick Smith has put together a heuristic tome that tells you all you need to know to put Linux to work in your office by using its strength as a network OS.Beginning at the beginning, he starts off with the basics and goes into enough detail to give the reader a good context for his instruction and, at the same time, gives the reader good, useful information about networking in general.After the basics, its onto the "meat"... Read Full Review

This book is targeted at the person who wants to build an intranet for a small to medium sized business using Linux servers.A well written and well structured book it starts with the basics of configuring Linux (using Red Hat), building a kernel suited for networking, configuring Ethernet and dialling using PPP. After this thorough grounding it goes on to file sharing using NFS, Samba and netatalk and printer sharing. Once... Read Full Review

This book has been nothing but a pleasure to read -- and not because the subject is pleasant, either. The author knows the subject so well, he is able to walk the fine line between too much information and not enough, at just the right time.Also, the book is very well organized. The author knows which subjects need to be covered before others. You may be urgent to get to a specific subject, but if you patiently read "prerequisite"... Read Full Review

I am a system administrator and work on UNIX workstations and servers every day. This book is a well of knowledge. It is written so that the beginner will understand how to do what needs to be done, to set up an office network. Very good. I have alot of pages dog eared. I am very glad I bought this book. Good job Roderick W. Smith.

Get this book to start building your intranet. It covers from basic networking and implementing Linux as intranet server. It's a great book !