Acknowledgments for the second version
Thanks to Pat Parseghian (Transmeta), Marc Staveley (Sun), and Mike Loukides (Anonymous) for their input to the outline of the second version. All the authors thank John Corbin, Evan Layton, Lin Ling, Dan McDonald, Shantanu Mehendale, Anay S. Panvalkar, Mohan Parthasarathy, Peter Staubach, and Marc Staveley (all of Sun); Carl Beame and Fred Whiteside (both of Hummingbird); Jeanette Arnhart; and Katherine A. Olsen, all for reviewing specific chapters and correcting many of our mistakes. After we thought we were done writing, it fell to Brent Callaghan, David Robinson, and Spencer Shepler of Sun to apply their formidable expertise in NFS and NIS to make numerous corrections to the manuscript and many valuable suggestions on organization and content. Thank you gentlemen, and we hope you recognize that we have taken your input to heart. Thanks to our editor, Mike Loukides, for giving us quick feedback on our chapters, as well as riding herd when we weren't on schedule.
Hal Stern's acknowledgments
More than a decade has gone by since the first version of this tutorial, during which I've moved three times and started a family. It was pretty clear to me that the state of networking in general, and NFS and NIS in particular, was moving much faster than I was, and the only way this second version became possible was to hand over the reins. Mike Eisler and Ricardo Labiaga have done a superb job of bridging the technical eon since the first version, and I thank them deeply for their patience and volumes of high-quality work. I also owe Mike Loukides the same kudos for his ability to guide this tutorial into its current form. Finally, a huge hug, with ten years of interest, to my wife, Toby, who has been reminding me (at least weekly) that I left all mention of her out of the first version. None of this would have been possible without her encouragement and support.
Mike Eisler's acknowledgments
First and foremost, I'm grateful for the opportunity Hal and Mike L. gave me to contribute to this version. I give thanks to my wife, Ruth, daughter, Kristin, and son, Kevin, for giving their husband and father the encouragement and space needed to complete this tutorial. I started on the second version while working for Sun. Special thanks to my manager at the time, Cindy Vinores, for encouraging me to take on the responsibility for co-authoring this tutorial. Thanks also to my successive managers at Sun, Karen Spackman, David Brittle, and Cindy again, and to Emily Watts, my manager at Zambeel, Inc., for giving me the equipment, software, and most of all, time to write. Ricardo Labiaga readily agreed to sign on to help write this tutorial when several members of the second version writing team had to back out, and thus took a big load off my shoulders. This tutorial was written using Adobe's Framemaker document editor. During the year 2000, Adobe made available to the world a free beta that ran on Linux. I thank Adobe for doing so, as it allowed me to make lots of progress while traveling on airliners.
Ricardo Labiaga's acknowledgments
Hal, Mike E., and Mike L., I have truly enjoyed working with you on this version. Thank you; it's been an honor and a great experience. I did most of the work on the second version while working for the Solaris File Sharing Group at Oracle, Inc. I thank my manager at the time, Bev Crair, who enthusiastically encouraged me to sign up for the project and provided the resources to coauthor this version. I also thank my successive managers at Sun, David Brittle and Penny Solin, for providing the necessary resources to complete the endeavor. Words are not enough to thank my friends and colleagues at Sun and elsewhere, who answered many questions and provided much insight into the technologies. Special thanks to David Robinson for his technical and professional guidance throughout the years, as well as his invaluable feedback on the material presented in this tutorial. Many thanks to Peter Staubach and Brent Callaghan for the time spent discussing what NFS should and should not do. Thanks to Mohan Parthasarathy and David Comay of Solaris Internet Engineering for answering my many questions about routing concepts. Thanks to Carl Williams and Sebastien Roy for their explanations of the IPv6 protocol. Thanks to Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall for providing the original Solaris priority paging information presented in "Network Performance Analysis". Thanks to Jeff Mogul of Compaq for his review of the NFSWATCH material, and Narendra Chaparala for introducing me to ethereal. I wish to thank Dr. David H. Williams of The University of Texas at El Paso, for providing me the opportunity to work as a system administrator in the Unix lab, where I had my first encounter with Unix and networking twelve years ago. I thank my parents from the bottom of my heart, for their encouragement throughout the years, and for their many sacrifices that made my education possible. My deepest gratitude goes to my wife, Kara, for her encouragement, understanding, and awesome support throughout the writing of this tutorial. Thank you for putting up with my late hours, work weekends, and late dinner dates.