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Title: SAMBA Essentials for Windows Administrators
by Gary Wilson, Andrew Tridgell
ISBN: 0-13-040942-1
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $39.99
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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)

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Rating: 3
Summary: Samba for Windows/Web Administration people
Comment: This book is relatively well written and well thought out.
IT contains usefull samba information. Here is what I didn't like.
I felt like half the book is dedicated to setting up interfaces to configure and maintain samba, ie SWAT and Webmin. WASTE OF TIME!!!! There are plenty of more in depth issues that I felt this book didn't cover in greater depth. I was recently in a situation where I had to integrade a Windows 98, Windows 2000,NT 4.0 and AS/400 clients with a SCO Unix Server. There were many authentication issues related to Windows 2000 that the book didn't cover. If you are a windows admin and you like flashy interfaces and you are just looking to set up simple file sharing between Unix and smb clients. Then get this book. It will help you do that. However, I don't think the text delves deeply enough into the integration challenges that Unix/NT admins face everyday. Overall a good book. But too much focus on web tools and not enough on scenario planning and architecture. Another problem with this focus is alot of people understand the classic unix approach.
The /etc/smb.conf file is very straight forward and self referencing. I find it much easier to deal with that file and not have to worry about all sorts of flashy stuff that take the focus away from the task at hand.
Making windows clients happy.

Rating: 5
Summary: Samba Essentials for Windows Administrators
Comment: Very Very Good Book!! Beyond Excellent!! Beyond 500 stars!! I am very new to Linux and this book made it a breeze to get Samba running. Very refreshing to see such a useful reference tool available for the Linux community.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good for IT Tech who like to use the Web Admin Approach
Comment: Only a 3. This book has some interesting topics about it, most has to do with Administering a Samba Server from the Web. Not from a Prompt. I was looking for more of a "Tricks of the Trade" kind of book. But this one does have some good points to it about web administering. But, what happens when the web is broke?
You are going to SSH into the box and fix it from a prompt not from a Web Page. Otherwise this book IS GOOD but not GREAT!

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