Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide

by Watters, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780596000738
• ISBN10: 0596000731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Solaris is rapidly becoming known as the most reliable and scalable solution on which to build e-commerce products and support networked services. One hurdle users face is finding information about what Solaris offers. Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide covers all aspects of deploying Solaris as a network server, including both basic and advanced network services. The book shows many examples of configuration files and third-party software installations, and delves more deeply into difficult conceptual material than do the Solaris reference manuals. Rather than covering every available software package in detail, this book emphasises practical issues like evaluating the security, scalability, and reliability of specific packages.

Author Biography

Paul A. Watters, MAPS, M.Phil.(Cambridge),B.A.(Hons.)(Tasmania),B.A. (Newcastle) recently submitted his PhD thesis in computer science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in the topic of natural language processing, and neural networks. The software he developed as part of his doctoral thesis runs on high-end Solaris servers through the Internet using CGI. In addition, he has eight years systems management and application development experience in commercial and R&D organizations. He specializes in building e-commerce and Internet information systems, based on Java, Solaris and open standards like CORBA. He is a columnist and author for the trade journal Inside Solaris, author of Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide, lead author of the upcoming Solaris 8: The Complete Reference, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and Solaris E-Commerce Bible, published by IDG.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Network Is the Computer	1	(6)
Sun ONE (Open Network Environment)	1	(4)
Solaris Releases	5	(1)
Solaris Resources	6	(1)
Building Solaris Networks	7	(25)
System Concepts	7	(1)
Network Architectures	8	(8)
Internet Protocols	16	(1)
Using inetd	17	(12)
Using snoop	29	(3)
Installing Solaris	32	(23)
Pre-Installation Checklist	32	(8)
Solaris Installations (SPARC)	40	(1)
Solaris Installations (Intel)	41	(5)
Preparing for Installation (SPARC)	46	(2)
Preparing for Installation (Intel)	48	(5)
Web Start Wizard Installation	53	(2)
Network Configuration	55	(17)
Creating Networks and Subnets	55	(3)
Configuring Network Interfaces	58	(5)
Obtaining Network Statistics	63	(6)
Routing	69	(3)
Naming Services	72	(31)
Domains and Name Services	72	(6)
Domain Name Service	78	(15)
Network Information Service	93	(1)
Network Information Service+	94	(6)
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	100	(3)
Host Administration	103	(35)
User Management	103	(8)
Software Package Management	111	(9)
Printer Management	120	(4)
Quotas	124	(1)
Installing Sendmail	124	(14)
File Serving	138	(26)
Samba	139	(11)
Network File System Servers	150	(9)
NFS Performance Measurement	159	(5)
Data Management	164	(25)
Data Management Principles	164	(7)
Revision Control Tools	171	(4)
Understanding Backups	175	(2)
Selecting a Backup Media	177	(1)
Backup and Restore Methods	178	(10)
Backup/Restore Packages	188	(1)
Network Security	189	(29)
Password Security	190	(10)
Secure Shell	200	(4)
Disabling IP Ports	204	(2)
Packet Filtering	206	(4)
Kerberos 5	210	(2)
IPsec	212	(2)
SOCKS Internet Proxy	214	(2)
MD5	216	(2)
Network Information Systems	218	(41)
Understanding Web Information Systems	219	(11)
Configuring a Web Server	230	(5)
Running Servlets	235	(3)
Writing Servlets	238	(3)
CORBA	241	(6)
Enterprise JavaBeans	247	(6)
Installing a Database Server	253	(6)
Index	259