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| Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Bartosh, Ryan Faas
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
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Pages: 846
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.8
ISBN: 0596006357
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780596006358
Publication Date: May 24, 2005
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 The most complete OS X Server reference around September 10, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Where this book shines is as a reference for obscure settings. For example:
I've been trying to replace a Mac OS X Client machine with a Mac OS X Server machine, but I needed to make AFP work the same way it did under Client (so some users are chrooted into their home folders while other users can access the enclosing sharepoint). Two days of beating my head against it, trying to compare com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist files and NetInfo records got me nowhere. Fifteen minutes with this book and pages 371-373 have solved all my problems. (It actually took me under five minutes to find the answer I needed, but the book was so interesting I read another ten minutes before I remembered I had a job to do.)
Bartosh may be a better author than he is an instructor, and he's a superb instructor. This book should be on every Mac OS X administrator's desk.
Best.OSX.Server.Book.Ever July 27, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you run any level of Mac OS X Server, you need to have this book. Period. Run, don't walk. It's one of the most useful sysadmin references I've ever read, and within a week of me buying it, it showed me how to fix an Open Directory Replica problem I was having, along with explaining what the hell was going on to cause the problem. So not only did I fix the problem, but I know why the problem happened in the first place, all because of this book.
Any book that shows me the how, what, and why of a problem that fast is worth whatever it costs, and I'll be buying the Mac OS X 10.4 book as well.
Wait, here's another one...I helped write a book on shell scripting. If you have to pick between the two, buy this book.
Panther Server Administration, The Good Stuff July 19, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you ever wanted to know anything about whats happing behind the GUI, then this book is for you.
This is a must have book for Admin's !!!
An OS X server admin's MUST HAVE! July 19, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I think this is the best book ever published by O'Reilly. I have read several of the other O'Reilly books including the Missing Manual's for OS X, but this book really gets into the functions of Panther server. Sure, it is a little late since Tiger is already out, but much of the book still applies to Tiger server. Before buying this book I bought the Peachpit Press Visual QuickPro Guide for Panther Server. It is a pretty good book for someone who has never administered an OS X server or who is uncomfortable with the command line. This O'Reilly book goes way deeper into administering the server. It talks about some 3rd party open source software that is very often helpful in maintaining a server. OS X server provides a lot of services that are derived from open source projects almost all of which have entire O'Reilly books dedicated to them. This book does a nice job of covering what you NEED to know about the services that OS X server provides all in one book. I highly recommend this book to anyone running even one OS X server 10.3 or higher.
Comprehensive and thorough June 23, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The word 'essential', to me, implies just the important elements. But this book goes far beyond that. In fact, it does an excellent job introducing technical topics in the larger world. For example, LDAP is given about five pages of explanation before we even get to how it's done on OS X. To me, that means this book is a comprehensive resource that will inform you about both the standards and their implementation in this environment. Obviating the need for a standards book.
If you are doing Mac OS X Server work, you need this book. The documentation in the operating system and on-line is tragic.
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