Solaris 8: The Complete Reference
A solid document on the Solaris operating system,Solaris 8: The  Complete Referenceshows you what you need to understand if you want to make  a living as administrator of a modern Sun workstation. Of course, this book is  not absolutely complete--no technical book about a subject as large as Solaris 8  could hope to be--but it should be more than adequate for most readers'  purposes. Whether you have experience with another enterprise operating system  and have recently been charged with figuring out Solaris, or you're a long-time  Solaris jock and need a handy reference to guide you through procedures that you  don't follow every day, this book has your number.The book approaches each Solaris capability from a variety of angles. Most  often, it takes a few pages to explain the "Solaris way" of thinking about a  problem, contrasting it with alternate approaches (such as those that might be  used in Linux or Windows NT) where that might be appropriate. Straight how-to  material usually follows in sections that have titles like, "Testing  Reachability"; those sections further break down into modules that have to do  with special cases, such as troubleshooting situations. Text and listings of  input and output predominate--an effective format for an operating system that's  driven largely by console activity.--David WallTopics covered:The Solaris operating system generally, with coverage of  the features that are new in release 8. A large section covers installation,  user and software administration, file-system management and backup planning,  and process management. Networking comes next--with sections on routing, the  DNS, and DHCP. Samba and the Network File System (NFS), plus explicit  instructions on integrating Solaris with Windows NT 4.0.