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Title	Professional Linux Deployment
Author(s)	Mark Wilcox, Michael Boerner, Ganesh Prasad, Ian Dickson, Jonathan Kelly, Luan Dang, Craig Guthrie, Richard Ollerenshaw, Geoff Sherlock
ISBN	1861002874
Language	English
Published	January 2000
Publisher	Wrox Press Inc

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As Linux gains an ever larger foothold in organizational computing, matters of integrating it into networks and other systems become more pressing. The authors of Professional Linux Deployment have combined forces to explain the technologies that exist to ease the process of making Linux machines cooperate with computers running Unix variants or Windows NT. There's plenty of Samba coverage here, of course, since that service is the best way to catch Server Message Block (SMB) calls from Windows NT, but this book goes far beyond Samba. Much of it has to do with documenting Linux solutions that parallel those for Microsoft operating systems. Coverage of MySQL, for instance, includes details on installing the software, setting up databases, and administering data and its users. There are explicit recipes for configuring a Linux computer as an Internet gateway and as a firewall. That's useful stuff, but the section on implementing Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) under Linux with EntireX, which includes lots of C++ code listings, deals with material that's not well covered elsewhere. This book also discusses setting up parallel-processing systems (something Linux is exceptionally good at--just ask NASA, which uses parallel-processing Linux machines in many of its projects). The coverage includes detailed instructions for setting up and using Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and MPICH, which is an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). For detailed coverage of Samba on its own, consider Samba: Unix and NT Internetworking. There's excellent information on Linux as an IP chaining firewall in Linux Firewalls.
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