Take the mystery out of installation and configuration with Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Communications Handbook. The text is an excellent guide to the variety of communications vehicles available in Windows NT Workstation. The book covers the use and integration of MS Exchange, FAX, and telephony features of the Internet, all major online services as well as company networks. This book covers all aspects of connecting an NT machine to other computers via a local-area network (LAN), a dial-up connection, the Internet, or a combination of these. It opens with a discussion of electronic communications technology, including bandwidth, modems, various LAN types, telephone company services, and the mechanics of sending data across a communications network. It then explains how to use communications software such as HyperTerminal and various online services under Windows NT Workstation 4.0. There's even a discussion of setting up and running a bulletin board system (BBS). Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Internet & Networking Handbook pays full attention to using NT Workstation on a LAN, though often it's a general discussion of LANs rather than of NT-based LANs in particular. The description of how to use a computer running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 as a server for a network is outstanding. Dial-up networking also gets its due coverage, and there's also a somewhat elementary section about how to use the Internet. The accompanying CD-ROM contains shareware and information about hardware and software from Windows Magazine . Overall, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Internet & Networking Handbook provides a competent guide to the issues inherent in connecting one computer to another. Though the approach may be a little elementary for knowledgeable NT administrators, almost everyone else will find something useful in this book. Windows NT has made strong inroads into Corporate America. With Pentium prices dropping, many companies are making the move toward Windows NT, as an alternative to Windows 95. This complete reference from Que takes the mystery out of the installation and configuration of Windows NT's tremendous communications productivity tools. It provides complete coverage of Remote Access options and major Remote Control programs, as well as Microsoft Exchange, FAX, and telephony features with the Internet. - Covers Windows NT networking-allowing readers to become the ultimate client to any type of network - Provides extensive troubleshooting throughout each chapter - Windows Magazine CD-ROM incudes origignal, exclusive material you won't find anywhere else