MAC OS X Server Essentials (Apple Training Series) |
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Author:
Schoun Regan
By Peachpit Press
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £39.89
Our Price: £43.95
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780321357588
ISBN: 0321357582
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 2005-08-25
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press |
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Search Inside option is wrong, 2008-02-20
I am looking at buying this book but wanted to make sure it was for OS 10.5. The Search Inside option that Amazon are offering is not a true reflection of the book as it is showing images from inside the previous book 10.4. The way I found this out was to search for the book via an American online book store, find a picture of the front cover which said it was for Leopard, note down it's ISBN number and then find it here on Amazon.
If you look carefully the ISBN number of the book does not match that of the one on the Copyright page viewable through the Search Inside options.
Therefore this book appears to be the right one if you want a Leopard Training book.
Hope this helps.
A must have for OS X Server administrators!, 2007-10-04
I have used this book on the front lines for some time now and can't emphasise enough how important I think it is to any OS X administrator's technical reference repertoire. The book works steadily through installation of OS X Server using both remote and local installation options; configuration of basic services (DNS and AFP to name two) and then leads into managed preferences, imaging, ARD (though not as well as the second volume of the administrator's series) and the section on share points and permissions is invaluable, since these topics can become a quagmire very quickly if you aren't prepared. I have to say that I use this manual daily at work- books like this one are a major cause of stress reduction for administrators everywhere!
USELESS FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN 'STANDARD' SETUP, 2008-11-24
First I bought Mac OS X Server Leopard following Apple's campaign "no IT department required". It turned out that server OS is undocumented by Apple. You heard it right. If you google for Linux or FreeBSD solutions you will find plenty and if it is Mac OS X Server there is none. You may think that this is because OS is all automatic and flawless (as many Apple products) but you'll be wrong to think so. Not the Server. It is just not considered as Proper Server OS by many (for a reason), hence no talks, hence no support. Let's move on as this review is about a book not OS. Book is a great design and feel, but very poor in content. It is like an overview of what Leopard Server is capable of without going into any sort of detail. For instance I bought a copy of OS to setup my small business email server. Why OS X Server is because I wanted to spend no time in future maintaining it. Well I was wrong as it took me a lot of hair to get it set up (installation is quick) and I ended up with starting FreeBSD server from the scratch instead. Back to the book. Mail paragraph is only few pages deep and has no information whatsoever on how to add second (or any more than one) email domain should you want to have multihost email server (in my case only two domains .co.uk and .com were needed). It's not extraordinary nowadays to have more than one email domain What else. Well everything is like that in this book. Overview-ish, shallow-ish and uninformative making you google, ask, research. Why one who 'doesn't have IT department' needs to do that when M$ SBS email server is just few clicks from being fully operational? I can't say. Mac OS X Server is raw and still new although it's been 8 years since it's first introduction. Anywho, I did install email server with help from AppleCare and Apple Discussions but had to manually config Postfix for use of virtual domains. Mac OS X GUI was useless for this task. It is only good to have 'standard' OS setup which is no-email, no-LDAP, no-SSL server setup but plain OS setup. The next question is why would one want to shell out £315,- for a 10 user copy of 'no IT department required'-hyped OS when one still would need to manually configure all components? Why M$ SBS of same cost would work straight out of the box when good looking Leopard Server is useless upon default installation? Go figure. I got rid of both useless book and pointless OS few days of struggle later. Complete and utter rubbish in my books. Good if you have extra £££ and space in your bookcase or if you are a collector of junk. Instead I had bought a copy of Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 book by Hong and couldn't be much happier. The book walked me through setup of secure fast, FREE and UNLIMITED mail server in no time. You may also consider starting with Linux as Leopard Server in it's state is the same hassle to learn as any other OS (perhaps even bigger one due to lack of documentation). Leave the idea guys unless you're absolutely have to and get going with opensource stuff instead. Opensource apps are heavily used in Mac OS X Server so why spend money on what you can get for free? Remember GUI in Leopard Server won't get you anywhere. As a result this fancy book is a waste of money. Flashy and picturesque but useless otherwise.
Excellent Buy!, 2009-01-08
This book has been really useful in setting up our server. It tells you everything you need to know before you delve into the detailed Apple resource documentation. It does also include background on services such as DNS which helped us to understand what we had to do, a godsend for server side novices like us. You can supplement your knowledge with additional reference material included at the end of each chapter. Coupled with the OS X Support Essentials this has been an excellent buy.
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