ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MANY PEOPLE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DESIGN, WRITING, AND PRODUCtion OF THE first edition of this book. Sun Microsystems Press would particularly like to acknowledge the following people for their contributions:

Connie Howard and Mike Rogers, SunSoft Information Technology and Products managers, and Bridget Burke for their support and encouragement.

Karin Ellison, SunSoft Press, deserves special thanks for her can-do attitude and her willingness to help out with all kinds of issues related to this book.

Don Charles, SunSoft Engineering Services Organization, for help in setting up a two-SPARC station network for this project, and for general system administration support.

Lori Reid, SunSoft Engineering Services Organization, for providing a Solaris® 2.1 CD-ROM.

Because this book contains so many different subject areas, specific acknowledgments are listed by part.

Part 1: Mail Services

Tom Kessler, SunSoft Engineering, for technical review and helpful discussions about different mail services configurations.

Dave Miner, SunSoft Engineering, for help with information about the Aliases database in Administration Tool.

Mike Gionfriddo, SunSoft Engineering, for answering questions about Administration Tool.

Don Brazell for technical review.

Part 2: NIS+

Rick Ramsey, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for writing a great book about NIS+, providing me with background information, and answering many questions about NIS+.

Vipin Samar, SunSoft Engineering, for providing the engineering perspective for NIS+ and for technical review.

Saqib Jang, SunSoft Marketing, for providing the marketing perspective and information about the benefits of NIS+.

Bob LeFave, SunSoft Engineering Services Organization, for last-minute technical input and technical review.

John Auer, SMCC Enterprise Information Services, for additional technical review.

Don Brazell for technical review.

Scott Mann and SunU for permission to sit in on lab classes about NIS+.

Part 3: Automounter Services

Brent Callaghan, SunSoft Engineering, for background information and technical review.

Don Brazell for technical review.

Part 4: Service Access Facility

Patrick Moffitt, SunSoft Training, for technical review.

Scott Mann and SunU for permission to sit in on lab classes about the SAF.

Neil Groundwater, SunSoft Engineering, for answering questions about modem connections and for technical review.

Tom Fowler, SunSoft Technical Marketing, for spending lots of time and effort figuring out how printing works in the Solaris 2.x releases, and for providing most of the printing troubleshooting examples.

Mary Morris, SunSoft Engineering, for technical review.

Bruce Sesnovich, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for providing background information about the SAF and modem procedures.

Tom Amiro, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for providing background information about administering user accounts and printers.

Part 5: Application Software

Steve Shumway, SunSoft Marketing, for technical review.

Davis Weatherby, Sun Information Resources systems engineer, for taking time off from his vacation to provide excellent background information on implementing wrapper-based application servers.

Wayne Thompson, Sun Information Resources systems engineer, for technical review and contributing to the background on application servers.

Rob Goodman, Sun Information Resources software distribution manager, for technical review and for facilitating the quality technical input on Sun's implementation of application servers.

Scott Mann and SunU for permission to sit in on lab classes about pkgadd and Software Manager.

Charla Mustard-Foote, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for providing me with a CD-ROM of SearchIt^™ software to use in the examples, and for answering questions about Software Manager.

MacDonald King Aston and Julie Bettis, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for patiently answering questions about Software Manager.

Keith Palmby, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for providing background information about the Online: DiskSuite^™ product.

Terry Gibson, SunTech Technical Publications, for providing background information about software licensing.

Dan Larson, SunTech Engineering Support Organization, for discussions about the engineering implementation of application servers.

Bill Petro, SunSoft Marketing, for background information about installing application software.

Linda Ries, SunSoft Engineering, for answering questions about the package commands and Software Manager.

Part 6: Introduction to Shell Programming

Sam Cramer, SunSoft Engineering, for doing two technical reviews of this part, even though his newest family member arrived right in the middle of the review cycle.

Ellie Quigly, Learning Enterprises; Chico, California; for providing me with her class notes for the Bourne, Korn, and C shells, and for permission to use examples from her course notes.

Wayne Thompson, SMCC Sun Information Resources, for technical review and for providing sample scripts for Chapter 16.

Appendix A: Volume Management

Howard Alt, SunSoft Engineering, for background information and for technical review.

Lynn Rohrer, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for background information and for technical review.

Robert Novak, SunSoft Marketing, for technical review.

Mary Lautner, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for letting me use her system to test the remote CD-ROM procedures.

Appendix B: Solaris Server Intranet Extension Products

Neil Groundwater, SunSoft Engineering, for background information and for technical review.

Lynn Rohrer, SunSoft Information Technology and Products, for background information and for technical review.

Robert Novak, SunSoft Marketing, for technical review.

Glossary

Craig Mohrman, SunSoft Engineering, for technical review.

Thanks are also due to the following people at Ziff-Davis Press for being so easy to work with: senior development editor Melinda Levine, copy editor Ellen Falk, managing editor Cheryl Holzaepfel, and project coordinator Ami Knox.

The author would like to thank her three cats for lap sitting, keyboard walking, and general company keeping while this book was in progress.

Second Edition

Sun Microsystems Press would like to acknowledge the following people for their contributions to the second edition of this book:

Brett Bartow, Acquisitions Editor, Macmillan Computer Publishing, for his enthusiasm and support on this project.

Mary Lautner, Program Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for her invaluable help and assistance in providing the author with documentation and answers to numerous questions. Without Mary's help and the information she provided, the author would have been unable to complete this project.

Those writers from SunSoft Technical Publications who contributed to the Solaris System Adminsitration Guide and the documentation on the Solaris Server Intranet Extension CD-ROM, which were used as technical reference resources.

Lisa Gebken of Macmillan Computer Publishing for editing this manuscript.

Peter Gregory for technical review comments.

Tobin Crockett for networking the author's SPARC station 10 and Macintosh PowerPC and for setting up a network printer.

Rob Johnston, System Support Specialist, Sun Microsystems Computer Company, for installing Solaris 2.6 and troubleshooting hardware and software problems.

Tien Nguyen, System Support Specialist, SunSoft, Inc., for help in troubleshooting hardware and software problems.

Linda Gallops, SunSoft SQA, for help in tracking down information about modems.

Ken Erickson of SunSoft for allowing the author to pester him with occasional technical questions.

The author would especially like to thank Rachel Borden and John Bortner of Sun Microsystems Press for their unfailing enthusiasm, support, and friendship