- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (22 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0131453556
- ISBN-13: 978-0131453555
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"The breadth of technical information provided in this book ensures that even the most demanding of administrators will find something they need." --Andrew Tridgell, President of the Samba Team and the original author of Samba The practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to cutting IT costs with Samba-3! This is the definitive guide to using Samba-3 in production environments. It begins with the immense amount of HOWTO information published by the Samba Team and volunteers around the world ...but that's just the beginning. The book's Samba Team editors have organized and edited this material around the practical needs of working Windows(R) administrators. UNIX(R)/Linux administrators will find all the answers they need as well. Whether you're deploying Samba for the first time, integrating Samba into a Windows 200x Active Directory environment, migrating from NT 4 or Samba 2.x, or using Samba in a UNIX/Linux environment, you'll find step-by-step solutions, carefully edited for accuracy, practicality, and clarity. You'll learn all you need to make intelligent deployment decisions, get running fast, and use Samba-3's powerful new features to maximize performance and minimize cost. Step-by-step installation techniques and proven configurations that work "right out of the box." *Essential Samba-3 information that leverages your Windows networking knowledge *Detailed coverage of Samba-3's powerful new user/machine account management, network browsing, and mapping capabilities *Authoritative explanations of advanced features such as interdomain trusts and loadable VFS file system drivers *Clear information on how Samba-3 handles Windows desktop/user policies and profiles *Practical techniques for optimizing network printing *Specific guidance for migration from Windows NT 4 or Samba 2.x *Troubleshooting techniques that draw on the knowledge of the entire Samba community
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"The breadth of technical information provided in this book ensures that even the most demanding of administrators will find something they need."
--Andrew Tridgell, President of the Samba Team and the original author of Samba
The practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to cutting IT costs with Samba-3!
This is the definitive guide to using Samba-3 in production environments. It begins with the immense amount of HOWTO information published by the Samba Team and volunteers around the world . . . but that's just the beginning. The book's Samba Team editors have organized and edited this material around the practical needs of working Windows(R) administrators. UNIX(R)/Linux administrators will find all the answers they need as well.
Whether you're deploying Samba for the first time, integrating Samba into a Windows 200x Active Directory environment, migrating from NT 4 or Samba 2.x, or using Samba in a UNIX/Linux environment, you'll find step-by-step solutions, carefully edited for accuracy, practicality, and clarity. You'll learn all you need to make intelligent deployment decisions, get running fast, and use Samba-3's powerful new features to maximize performance and minimize cost.
Step-by-step installation techniques and proven configurations that work "right out of the box."
- Essential Samba-3 information that leverages your Windows networking knowledge
- Detailed coverage of Samba-3's powerful new user/machine account management, network browsing, and mapping capabilities
- Authoritative explanations of advanced features such as interdomain trusts and loadable VFS file system drivers
- Clear information on how Samba-3 handles Windows desktop/user policies and profiles
- Practical techniques for optimizing network printing
- Specific guidance for migration from Windows NT 4 or Samba 2.x
- Troubleshooting techniques that draw on the knowledge of the entire Samba community
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great guide for all of those who, as I am doing now, are going to deploy a Samba server on a Linux box to make a domain controller in a network for Microsoft clients. One of the good sides of this book is that it gives also an interesting description on how Mirosoft-based networks work.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A printed version of the great online doc.
4 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is great, it gives you all background, detailed description, step by step guides etc. All you need to know about samba is there. However you should keep in mind that this is pretty much a printed version of http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ , so the same content is available for free on the web site. I personally like old school paper books, that's the only reason I bought it. If you don't care, maybe you should check out the site first and it might be all you need.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The straight dope on Samba 3, authorative and indispensible
20 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide is an ambitious work that is going to have a lot of admins slapping their foreheads and saying "Aha! So that's how it's done."
Having used Samba for quite a while, but never having felt confident enough to try anything overly exotic in the office, this book helped (and inspired) me to dust off my minimal configurations and go for more complete integration with the existing Windows infrastructure. The authors are knowledgable and speak from production experience, punctuating the technical content with helpful comments and best practices for folks who depend on Samba to get their job done. The tone of the book is also realistic about explaining what's in Samba, what might be in Samba, and what's not very likely to ever be in Samba. (I think it's great that members of the Samba team can be frank, and aren't taking advantage of an opportunity to toot their own horns, promise the moon and a bunch of vaporware.)
Even if you consider yourself fairly advanced with Samba configuration, this book - the distilled knowledge and experience of great number of HOWTOs and configuration examples - is likely to be useful for you. It's probably not for rank beginners, but that's part of being a good reference work for production admins.
My only complaint with the book has to do with a few typos and editing problems. (LaTex can be unforgiving, eh?) Also, I found Part II, the quick start/cookbook section, to be a little repetitive, and felt that it could have used a little more editorial oversight. (Hint: Don't read it straight through - you don't need to anyway.) But Part III, which is the meat of the book, is much better done, and I'd say damn near indispensible if you're serious about bridging the gulf between Un*x and Windows technologies in your workplace.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Become a SAMBA Guru painlessly :-)
3 Nov 2003
Format:Paperback
This book is a great step by step guide, reference, and learning tool. The organization allowed me to drill into those areas of interest without having to wade through unnecessary details. When I wanted to drill into the technology - the information was there! I was able to find concise, accurate instructions, as well as theory and background. I think it is especially helpful to the Windows skilled sysadmin who is looking to deploy or support UNIX interoperability. Having the help files at the end of the book was also very helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone who has both Linux/Unix and Windows systems!
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