BKNTWTRB.RVW 940414 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 or Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com Bob Donegon bobd@aw.com John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com Tom Stone, Editor, Higher Education Division tomsto@aw.com Philip Sutherland, Schulman Series 74640.2405@compuserve.com Keith Wollman, Trade Computer Group keithw@aw.com 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 "Netware Troubleshooting", Hader, 1991, 0-201-57737-2, U$34.95/C$44.95 The format of the book is a combination of problem orientation, listing problems with explanations and solutions, and a general didactic approach. The format varies with the topic under discussion. In general, the problem outline method is most useful, and would be very helpful to those who are beginning to use or manage NetWare systems. The additional material can be used as reference as the new administrator grows into the task. The material covers a broad range of topics. File server optimization deals with memory, configuration, internal bridges and file attributes. Workstation topics discuss the shell configuration files, and logging in. Application software discussions are limited to Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect, unfortunately. There is also coverage of security, printing and management. Overall, the material is well written, but it does fall down in places. In particular, tables, figures and examples often are poorly chosen or designed for illustrating the points they are supposed to clarify. Another example is the treatment of effective rights: although the author states that this is a difficult subject and spends extra time here, the concept is not presented in a clear and accurate manner. A disk is included with a number of small, but potentially useful, utilities. You will, however, have to read the whole book to find out what is there and how to use it. There is no listing of the files collected anyplace in the book. The programs are described (very briefly) at points in the book where they address specific needs. The book, published in 1991, is slightly dated and covers only the ELS I, ELS II, Advanced NetWare, SFT and NetWare 386 versions. Many of the problem scenarios, however, are common to all NetWare versions, and address problems arising from the experienced DOS user unaware of some of the DOS/Netware interactions. A useful guide for the beginning sysadmin. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKNTWTRB.RVW 940414 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 DECUS Symposium '95, Toronto, ON, February 13-17, 1995, contact: rulag@decus.ca