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Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes "Generic "Open Source" scores another success news. In a press release at their web site, Vertias has announced that they'll be shipping a fully supported Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition" product. " As always, my hat's off to the Samba Team.

Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes "Generic "Open Source" scores another success news. In a press release at their web site, Vertias has announced that they'll be shipping a fully supported Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition" product. " As always, my hat's off to the Samba Team.

Well, after a long wait and fanfare, Kurt has sent a review of John Blair's Samba effort Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows. If you need to make those two play well together, click below for more information. Samba: Integrated UNIX and Windows author John D. Blair pages publisher Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. rating 7 reviewer Kurt DeMaagd ISBN summary This book provides in depth detail about installing and configuring Samba. The Scenario John Blair, a member of the Samba development team, tackles the issue of integrating Windows and UNIX machines using Samba. While Samba is best known for allowing a UNIX host to act as a file server for Windows machines, it also includes services for print serving, authentication, name resolution, and other services needed for Windows networks. Blair begins with a discussion of NetBIOS and SMB, the core protocols of Windows networking, but spends a majority of the book going into excrutiating detail about how to install and configure Samba. In addition to general configuration settings, it discusses the necessary configuration settings for approximately 35 different operating systems, including Linux, OS/2, Solaris, many more obscure operating systems.

As the preface notes, this is a book primarily for UNIX systems administrators. Since it devotes a large amount of space to configuration parameters and explanation, it is definitely not a book to sit down and read on a lazy Sunday afternoon. If you are an administrator attempting to set up Samba, this is the book for you. If you are looking for a more casual reading experience, you will be quickly bogged down in the configuration details.

What's Bad? This is an extremely dry book that is about as fascinating to read as a man page. Many portions of the book are little more than a paper versions of existing documentation. For everyone who doesn't like to pay for information that is already freely distributed, all of the contents are accessable in the Samba man pages or online at Samba's web site.

What's Good? The chapter detailing the SMB and NetBIOS protocols is an interesting and valuable addition to the book. In a text that devotes a majority of its space to installation and configuration, it provides an interesting insight into the underlying workings of the server. For those who are installing Samba, it provides step-by-step installation and configuration information for a variety of operating systems.

So What's In It For Me? If you need to configure a Samba server, this book is a valuable resource. It provides in depth configuration details and examples for a variety of scenarios.

Buy this book at Amazon.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Windows Networking Protocols
3. Downloading and Building Samba
4. Components of the Samba Suite
5. Global Configuration Options
6. Service Configuration Options
7. Browser Configuration Options
8. Access Control Configuration Examples
9. Service Configuration Examples
10. Other Tricks and Techniques
11. Diagnosing Problems
12. The Linux SMB Filesystem

Well, after a long wait and fanfare, Kurt has sent a review of John Blair's Samba effort Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows. If you need to make those two play well together, click below for more information. Samba: Integrated UNIX and Windows author John D. Blair pages publisher Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. rating 7 reviewer Kurt DeMaagd ISBN summary This book provides in depth detail about installing and configuring Samba. The Scenario John Blair, a member of the Samba development team, tackles the issue of integrating Windows and UNIX machines using Samba. While Samba is best known for allowing a UNIX host to act as a file server for Windows machines, it also includes services for print serving, authentication, name resolution, and other services needed for Windows networks. Blair begins with a discussion of NetBIOS and SMB, the core protocols of Windows networking, but spends a majority of the book going into excrutiating detail about how to install and configure Samba. In addition to general configuration settings, it discusses the necessary configuration settings for approximately 35 different operating systems, including Linux, OS/2, Solaris, many more obscure operating systems.

As the preface notes, this is a book primarily for UNIX systems administrators. Since it devotes a large amount of space to configuration parameters and explanation, it is definitely not a book to sit down and read on a lazy Sunday afternoon. If you are an administrator attempting to set up Samba, this is the book for you. If you are looking for a more casual reading experience, you will be quickly bogged down in the configuration details.

What's Bad? This is an extremely dry book that is about as fascinating to read as a man page. Many portions of the book are little more than a paper versions of existing documentation. For everyone who doesn't like to pay for information that is already freely distributed, all of the contents are accessable in the Samba man pages or online at Samba's web site.

What's Good? The chapter detailing the SMB and NetBIOS protocols is an interesting and valuable addition to the book. In a text that devotes a majority of its space to installation and configuration, it provides an interesting insight into the underlying workings of the server. For those who are installing Samba, it provides step-by-step installation and configuration information for a variety of operating systems.

So What's In It For Me? If you need to configure a Samba server, this book is a valuable resource. It provides in depth configuration details and examples for a variety of scenarios.

Buy this book at Amazon.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Windows Networking Protocols
3. Downloading and Building Samba
4. Components of the Samba Suite
5. Global Configuration Options
6. Service Configuration Options
7. Browser Configuration Options
8. Access Control Configuration Examples
9. Service Configuration Examples
10. Other Tricks and Techniques
11. Diagnosing Problems
12. The Linux SMB Filesystem

Courtesy Linux Weekly News. Samba 2.0 has been released. Samba is a fully Y2K-compliant and supported "file and print server suite" for Linux, and an often cited free software success story (it is GPL). 2.0 adds the ability to "integrate seamlessly into an existing Windows NT domain". See the press release (with an amazing benchmark relult at the head), or the Samba project home page for more info.