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Summary: A THOROUGH AND STEADFAST GUIDE FOR 'SAMBA' USERS
Review: "Using Samba" was thorough and steadfast in its bid to completely demystify that popular freeware program called Samba. This book is a dedicated guide, which gave an invaluable insight into how Samba provides file and print services for its users. Apart from keeping pace with all the developments and metamorphoses which the freeware has undergone, the adherents of this program, especially those who run UNIX Samba Servers, will enjoy the extra details and revisions which service announcements (i.e. browsing) has received.
All the new developments and configurations (from version 2.0 to 2.2), including the latest in SWAT graphics, Network File System (or NFS), Server Message Block (or SMB), have been added.
This is a very sound book, whose intuition has consistently improved over the years.
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Summary: Very easy read, very complete
Review: Even by O'Reilly standards this book stands out as one of the easiest to read, most complete books of its kind. Everything else I read on this subject makes setting up Samba seem like a bit of a black art. This explains it well, especially on the issue of passwords. It offers a very comprehensive and helpful troubleshooting section.
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Summary: Just what I needed!
Review: Excellent! This book helped me clear all the silly mistakes I usually make when installing Samba on Linux. This is an easy to read (and understand!) book that can make life easier to anybody who must connect Windows and Linux in an heterogeneous enviroment. Great work!
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Summary: Makes Samba Simple
Review: For a long time I knew what Samba was, but I never had the need to use or configure it. When a need to use Samba finally came up, I had a difficult time making it work the way I wanted. I waded through several man pages and on-line HOWTO's, but I just wasn't getting the big picture, so I purchased this book.My only regret is that I waited so long to buy it. This book is very easy to read and understand. I was even putting off buying the book because of the impending release of Samba 3.0; I was afraid the book would be obsolete after I bought it. Much to my surprise, this book also covers Samba 3. It has plenty of nice screenshots to help you through (client) configuration of various windows versions and even OS X. Sample configuration files are provided, which can help you get up and running in a hurry, but it does a good job going into the detail of the configuration files to help you "tighten" things up later on. One of the appendices even features a two sentence description of each config file option - a welcome addition. Unlike a lot of on-line documentation, this book is easy to read. Initially, I was just trying to get my smb server working, but I couldn't help but read well beyond the information I initially sought. I'm now prepared to configure samba as the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for our network. There's also a good portion of the book devoted to using smbclient to browse existing networks.
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Summary: Makes Samba Simple
Review: For a long time I knew what Samba was, but I never had the need to use or configure it. When a need to use Samba finally came up, I had a difficult time making it work the way I wanted. I waded through several man pages and on-line HOWTO's, but I just wasn't getting the big picture, so I purchased this book. My only regret is that I waited so long to buy it. This book is very easy to read and understand. I was even putting off buying the book because of the impending release of Samba 3.0; I was afraid the book would be obsolete after I bought it. Much to my surprise, this book also covers Samba 3. It has plenty of nice screenshots to help you through (client) configuration of various windows versions and even OS X. Sample configuration files are provided, which can help you get up and running in a hurry, but it does a good job going into the detail of the configuration files to help you "tighten" things up later on. One of the appendices even features a two sentence description of each config file option - a welcome addition. Unlike a lot of on-line documentation, this book is easy to read. Initially, I was just trying to get my smb server working, but I couldn't help but read well beyond the information I initially sought. I'm now prepared to configure samba as the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for our network. There's also a good portion of the book devoted to using smbclient to browse existing networks.
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Summary: Best Introductory book on the subject!!!! period
Review: I red this book about a year ago and it is still a reference for topics that are the basis on the subject.
Of course there are things it does not cover like how to configure a pdc for a windows domain would it be 98, NT or even 2000 (at the time windows 2000 wasn't available) But let's just say it usually takes me 2 or 3 months to read a book on computers because of their syle of writing.
I red this one in 2 weeks, it is so well written that you'll want to get to the last page as soon as you start reading it. So i would recommnend this book to any person interested in learning samba or even those who have some experience in the subject.
It would be great if o'reilly could publish a book as well written on the same subject but directed toward more advanced features of samba. But still no bad comments on this book, it is my little bible of samba
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Summary: Good for Linux newbies
Review: I thought setting up disk shares on my Red Hat 7 box for my Win2k users was going to be a daunting task considering all of the configuration options. I read the first two chapters (49 pages), and I was done. Red Hat 7 users : 1)the super daemon for the Internet services is configured by xinetd.conf. If you're a Linux dummy like me, this will help. 2)I could not get smbd and nmbd to start automatically per their instructions, but I am new to Linux, and this task is easily surmountable. I started them manually per their instructions, and everything worked fine.
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Summary: Not the usual O'Reilly quality
Review: I wasn't impressed with this book. I purchased three Samba titles:
this one, Samba Unleashed and Special Edition: Using Samba. I found
that the other two books contained much more content and deeper explanation of Samba and its parts. None the less, this book is a good reference, but you'll inevitably need another boook to figure out Samba.
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Summary: Not the usual O'Reilly quality
Review: I wasn't impressed with this book. I purchased three Samba titles:
this one, Samba Unleashed and Special Edition: Using Samba. I found
that the other two books contained much more content and deeper explanation of Samba and its parts. None the less, this book is a good reference, but you'll inevitably need another boook to figure out Samba.
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Summary: Excellent Source of Information
Review: I'd been wanting to set up Samba on my LAN for quite a while, but I just couldn't find decent documentation on it. I even e-mailed O'Reilly with the suggestion of making a Samba book and was very happy to be told that one was on its way. This book not only covers Samba and its configuration, but also explains it's protocol SMB/CIFS very well. I was able to breeze through the book in a short time and have Samba up and running perfectly within a week. O'Reilly lives up to it's reputation with this one.
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