Overview
Solve all kinds of small and mid-sized network problems with help from this authoritative and comprehensive resource. Written by renowned PC troubleshooting expert Stephen Bigelow, this hands-on guide covers network topologies, protocols, and operating systems and provides full details on network hardware -- cabling, NICs, drives, adapters, hubs, routers, print servers, power support, and much more. In addition to common troubleshooting guidelines and hundreds of specific symptoms, you'll also get practical techniques for handling network administration, backup and recovery, security, and baselining.Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen you’re swearing at your network, wouldn’t it be great to have a book you can swear by? Stephen Bigelow’s Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing Networks is that book. Bigelow’s PC repair book has been saving technicians’ posteriors for years now. They’ll be thrilled to hear he’s published a network repair book, and so will you.
This book will pay for itself the first time you run into trouble, look up your problem in Bigelow’s comprehensive library of symptoms, and get pointed straight to the solution you need. (Want to know why your RAID controller isn’t delivering the throughput you expect? Why your NIC driver won’t load? Why you can’t access your wireless broadband cable/DSL router from your Wi-Fi network card? Why you can’t remove your server’s memory resident anti-virus tool? Look here first.)
With 1,200-plus pages, Bigelow has room for chapters on everything from network architectures to SCSI troubleshooting, print servers to Wi-Fi, web servers to log-on problems, network baselining to server motherboards. There’s coverage of Windows 2000, Linux, and NetWare 5. And there’s a superb discussion of fundamental network troubleshooting strategy. You may never know what’ll happen next, but you can be pretty sure it’s covered in here. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
Offers guidance on diagnosing and correcting 300 plus problems that befall Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware, and Linux 7.2 networks. As a desktop reference, the book reviews protocols, operating systems, server motherboards, network interface cards, RAID and SCSI adapters, switches, routers, firewalls, backups, and user administration. It is also appropriate for network technicians preparing for a certification exam, with a sample DLS exam provided in an appendix. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR