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Summary: I love all of Mark's books and this is no exception!
Review: Don't listen to the bad reviews. They don't know what they are talking about. Mark has put together the most informative book on networking with TCP/IP and NT that I, or you, will ever see in our lifetime. I recommend this book.
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Summary: Unprofessional
Review: I read a good portion of this book and it made me sick. Mr. Minasi cannot stay on topic. He starts to explain a topic, then he seems to drift and digress. After apparently realising that he is off topic he makes a wacky joke or a silly comment (not in parenthesis either) and start to wright about his subject again. He will do these things within a single contorted paragraph. One of his allusions was about the reader not being able to learn TCP/IP troubleshooting and then having to call the auther for help and eventually talking about hourly rates. (He was joking I'm sure). I bought this book to learn TCP/IP. I cannot learn it from this book. I am not even sure the auther knows what he is writing about.Aside from the auther's comical perspective about TCP/IP, I do not like the way he puts things into step-wise order. He doesn't use numbers or bullets; he uses long winded explanations and points to ponder. Nobody on this side of the publishing house cares whether or not Mr. Minasi understands why the MS programers chose to use one type of button and / or dialog box over another. If you are an expert network engineer and you are tired of waiting on Andy Rooney's perspective on networking then buy this book as soon as possible. I replaced this one with - Networking with Microsoft TCP/IP Certified Administrator's Resourse Edition - by Drew Heywood & Rob Scrimger New Riders Publishing MCP Approved Study Guide. It comes with a practice test and chapter questions! Good Shopping !
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Summary: The best book to start with
Review: I'm a certified Microsoft trainer and I specialize in TCP/IP. When students ask what book they should start with, I always used to say, like everyone else, Douglas Comer's _Internetworking with TCP/IP, vol 1_. OK, Comer's book is great. It is a college textbook and it reads like one. If you want/need that level of detail, then get it. But for people just starting with TCP/IP, this is a much better book to start with. It is also helpful if you just need to know more about NetBIOS over TCP/IP. I've been waiting for Mark to write a book like this for years now. His writing style is very reader-friendly. He keeps it full of information but in a way that doesn't overload you. If you haven't read his outstanding articles in Windows NT Magazine, you're really missing out. I also know Todd and Monica professionally and have a lot of respect for their talents as engineers and authors.A good addition to an MCSE's library.(My opinion is my own and does not necessarily express that of my employer, QuickStart Technologies.)
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Summary: Dated and dreadful
Review: Looking through an online version of this book, I was astonished by how outdated it was--but then, it was published five years ago. Lots of references to Microsoft vaporware like Enhanced Directory Services (DS), not to mention plenty about gopher and WAIS and other obsolete stuff that's pretty irrelevant now. Presumably, there's a more up-to-date book available from these folks, but I truly can't understand how this book has so many fans.
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Summary: Dated and dreadful
Review: This book was very well written and I actually enjoyed reading it. Most of the topics were well covered and easily understandable, with the exception being subnetting, TCP packet format, and ports. I had bought this book primarily for the underlying theory behind TCP/IP and its application in the NT environment. While the NT application of TCP/IP was covered in detail, the actual protocol was not sufficiently detailed. If your goal is to apply TCP/IP to NT, this book would rate approximately four stars. For its coverage of TCP/IP theory, I give it two stars. It rates three stars overall.
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