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The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide
The book itself For people with little time, the book starts with the chapter "FastStart: Cure for the Impatient," which features many example configurations of working solutions, each illustrating working setups using Samba to different ends -- as a file and print server, CD-ROM server, etc.
In the following chapters, the How-To and Reference Guide deals with all aspects of server and security modes, domain control and backup domain control and stand-alone configurations. Each of the chapters include further example configurations as well as in-depth discussion of the chapter's topic, and a "common errors" section that answers the most obvious real life errors.
In the third part of the book (Advanced Configuration) the reader is presented with detailed information on the topics of network browsing, account information databases, and group mapping from MS Windows to the Unix world, as well as file, directory and share access controls and file and record locking. There is also a second chapter about security in this part of the book.
Still in the third part, the book explains the new features of Samba 3.0.0, for instance interdomain trust relationships and distributed file systems.
Two very thorough chapters explain the conventional printing support with Samba, as well as printing via the newer print system CUPS. Following short chapters about winbind and network management, the Guide explains how to set up and maintain system and account policies, and how to exercise desktop profile management, and provides short but informative chapters about PAM authentication, Windows/Samba network integration, character sets, and some words about backups and high availability.
Part 4 of the Samba How-To Guide deals exclusively with updating and migrating from Samba 2.x to Samba 3.0.0, including an example migration from a NT4 PDC to a Samba-3 PDC and a user guide to the SWAT (graphical interface for configuring Samba) tool.
In part 5 (Troubleshooting) the reader is given a very good checklist to verify all functions of the Samba installation are working correctly and a guide how to analyze and solve problems with Samba.
In the appendices, the book gives information on how to obtain and compile Samba, lists supported platforms, gives hints for performance tuning, dhcp and dns, and includes the man pages to the Samba programs and configuration files.
Primary audience The book is written for people in the "Windows world" who want to take a look into the services and possibilities Samba offers for them. Beginners get very detailed information which things are possible with Samba and which are not (for now), as well as the necessary background for installing and configuring Samba on a Unix/Linux system. For the advanced user, there are still some diamonds of new information and also a good reference for all the new settings and options in the new Samba release. Personal Rating I can recommend this book to everyone interested in Samba - especially the new 3.0 version - no matter if you are new to Samba or even an experienced user of the software who is interested in expanding your knowledge and trying new features. It has its place on my bookshelf of very useful documentation.You can purchase The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide from bn.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
While it is an excellent idea to financially support the Samba project, not only because of what they are doing but for how well they do it, but for those who are looking for who can't afford this book essentially the same document can be found here. Keep in mind this was the pre-release version of the published book. And I would just like to say thanks to the Samba team for all the excellent work they have done!!!
I was once told that Mr. Tridgell got enough pizza's in house for the rest of his life, so I guess they left that part out now. :-)
Except that you also have to buy all sorts of books for say, Windows servers, Oracle, etc.
It's a copy/paste from the table of contents.
But anyway, the problem I have with this book is that as you read about configuration in more detail as the book progresses, it sort of assumes you understand various MS networked file system concepts.
I think the book could definitely use either an intro chapter or at least an appendix that discusses the core concepts of SMB first. Then I could make better decisions on deployment.
-Shane
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BN, Amazon. You'd think they're the only games in town.
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Thanks
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Thanks
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
It's all available online from samba.org: Note: There are a couple of chapters that are missing from these versions but all-in-all it should answer most of your questions.
This may not be what your after, but take a look here...x proresour ces/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/uni
Shipping will go about ten dollars, but the software is free.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Overstock.com. $28.79 USD... nice, real nice.
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." - M.J. A
pwdump does this:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/pwdump/
See the comments in pwdump.c.
A couple of the preceding posts have given you the answer, but in case it isn't entirely obvious, here is a rephrasing.
There is no particular value in having the Windows systems try to function as NFS clients. Instead, have them mount shares from a Samba server. That server, being a Unix system, can share any NFS filesystems it happens to mount. It's trivially easy.
Only downside is that it's getting a little dated--how about a 3rd edition, Mark? =)