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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours by Gerald Carter, Richard Sharpe, Jerry Carter ISBN: 0-672-31609-9 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 20 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: From beginners to experts
Comment: A must have!
Covers perfectly the Samba installation from the firsts steps but also protocol and distributed architecture issues.
Perhaps is one of the best guides to understand the puzzle about wins,browsing, NetBEUI, NetBIOS and the smb.
With an installation about several hundreds NT workstations, and many thousands users this book help us for the daily maintenance.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book for People
Comment: This was one of the first few Unix books I read when I had little experience in Unix administration. It gives detailed account on Samba development and how it works with windows networking. So if you have learnt some stuff already in Unix and Windows administration and if you are interested to have a brief account on how it works, then this 24 hour series surely will give you a nice introduction.
More importantly, the book guides the readers step by step on how to get the latest source of Samba, how to compile it, how to install it, how to configure it and how to get it work with 98/NT . Indeed the book has put together a whole picture of Samba that everyone should begin with and could easily comprehend. I set up mine successfully with the book.
However to really get Samba in production with this 24 series, I think more details on Samba configuration and security issue should be discussed if this series intend to serve Unix newbies like me. It is hard to follow the instructions to set up the password to control communication between NT and Unix. I suggest there should be some relevent Unix topic to be introduced in the book.
To conclude, this 24 series is really a good guide for people strong in Unix especially when we consider this book is one of the earliest books on Samba topics. The book is of quite excellent quality.
Rating: 2
Summary: Assistance without Help
Comment: The description of this book would be that it "offers all possible assistance short of any actual help".
I now have a great background as to why Samba Exists, why it is called Samba and a whole wealth of other trivial things.
The Samba Parameters are explained, but it is not made clear why one would use most of them and when.
I bought the book when I was trying to hook a Samba server between Linux and WinXP. WinXP seems to have been an afterthought in this book as it is included in some parts but not in others, but mostly it is not mentioned in any useful context.
The section on debugging is probably the best, and most needed if you try to install Samba according to this book, but then I already got a copy of that chapter free from a link on the Samba website.
My copy of this book is currently gathering dust on the floor and I am using FTP to transfer files.
Not recommended for Samba beginners, for whom I guess it was intended...
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Title: SAMBA Essentials for Windows Administrators by Gary Wilson, Andrew Tridgell ISBN: 0130409421 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours by Daniel Lopez ISBN: 0672323559 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Using Samba, Second Edition by Jay T's, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown ISBN: 0596002564 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Samba Unleashed (Unleashed) by Steve Litt ISBN: 0672318628 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 30 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition by David Collier-Brown, Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts ISBN: 0596005466 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 21 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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