Hands-On Novell Open Enterprise Server for Netware and Linux

This new edition covers installing, configuring, and managing Novell Open Enterprise Server, which incorporates both the NetWare 6.5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server network operating systems. This book features extensive hands-on projects with real-world scenarios to help students apply new concepts and sharpen problem-solving skills and an ongoing set of case study projects that lead students through applying and configuring NetWare 6.5 and SUSE Linux administrative features. In addition, hands-on and case projects allow students to see how software components work together to build a functioning network systems.

Ted Simpson is a long-time Course Technology author. He has been working, teaching, and writing about computers for over 20 years. In 1990, Simpson wrote one of the first books in the Course Technology Networking series, Hands-On Netware 3.11. Ted has used virtualization software to aid in teaching computer lab classes for several years, and has given presentations on virtualization for Course Technology conferences. Ted is currently a certified Novell and Microsoft instructor at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, and the author of many books, including Hands-On Novell Open Enterprise Server, Guide to Novell Netware Administration Enhanced Edition, 70-270, 70-290: MCSE/MCSA Guide to Installing and Managing Microsoft XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, and Virtual Machines Companion, all of which are written for use with virtualization. In addition to classroom teaching and industry training, Ted has been developing curricula for microcomputer related courses since the 1980s and holds the following certifications: A+, Network+, NetWare 6 CNE and CNI, and MCSE.