Managing Windows NT Logons

by Kathy Ivens

Administrators spend much of their time and energy on workstation problems, those user and logon problems that keep the helpdesk phone jingling. From forgotten passwords to user-caused destruction of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565926374
• ISBN13: 9781565926370
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Best!

For years I've been buying books from O'Reilly because they make my job easier. Running a large system across multiple sites, multiple domains, with thousands of users isn't exactly a snap. Managing Logons is without a doubt the best written O'Reilly book the publisher has ever put out. While many O'Reilly books are filled with excellent technical detail, they're generally not written all that well and sometimes that makes it more difficult to get through them. You have to move slowly because sentences and paragraphs aren't always clear on the first reading. They're also often not very entertaining, which means you tend to read in shorter spurts.This book is a model of perfect writing. I couldn't put it down. The author writes with clarity, and you feel as if an experienced human being who actually has a personality is having a conversation with you.The second reason this is the best O'Reilly book on my desk (which has more than a dozen O'Reilly books) is that it provides the best of two worlds, a wonderfully clear overview of the technology in addition to direct instructions on how to perform tasks. Many of the O'Reilly books I have (and treasure) only provide technical overviews, you have to buy another book (or spend time in front of a computer) to learn how to perform tasks. Of course those tasks are easier and safer to perform if you read the overview first, especially if you get your information from the kind of experts that write O'Reilly books.I've solved so many problems with this book, some of which dogged me for years. Before I read this book, I applied workarounds that actually reduced efficiency, but at least the errors went away. Now user logons are smooth and I can incorporate all the features I want into the logon processes because I learned how from this book.I'm not sure I want to migrate my networks to Windows 2000 until Kathy Ivens writes her Windows 2000 version of this book.

EXCELLENT!

I am a technical trainer and have started recommending this book to all of my students. This slim volume helps solve many of day-to-day NT problems and includes a great amount of very useful information. This book has some of the best information I have seen to date reguarding the integration of Windows 95 and 98 clients into NT networks. The author consentrates on useful real world information.I only wish this book had appeared earlier in NT 4's life. I hope the author has started the Windows 200 version of the book

A "must" for your NT bookshelf

Managing NT Logon is not only packed full of good, hard-to-find information, but is concise, well-organized, and beautifully written. Every two or three pages I found myself saying, "ah hah... so THAT'S how that really works!" The section on the boot.ini file was a tour de force. I have a bookshelf with about 2 dozen books on Windows NT, some of them quite thick, yet Iven's book was the first to clearly explain the boot process, related files and functions, and possible problems in a way that connects directly to our network operating environment. Even if you think you know everything you need to about the NT logon process, this book could surprise you. Lucid, useful, satisfying, and an excellent value.

A book that helped with lab management

This book really helped us to get things straight when we were trying work out how to manage a lab of computers that were all different versions of windows and all served by an NT server. I recommend this book to people that need help with setting up logins from any type of windows machine into an NT server