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Samba Pocket Reference, Second Edition

By Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown
Second Edition April 2003
Pages: 140
Series: Pocket References
ISBN 10: 0-596-00546-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596005467

Book description

The current edition of Samba Pocket Reference covers Samba 2.x and the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print. New options pertain to Samba's acting as a primary domain controller and as a domain member server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP authentication and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and access to shared files and printers from Unix clients.
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Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients.This book describes all the options for Samba's configuration file in quick-reference format. It also contains command-line options and related information on the use of the Samba daemons (smbd, nmbd, and winbindd) and the utilities in the Samba distribution.

The current edition covers Samba 2.x and the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print. New options pertain to Samba's acting as a primary domain controller and as a domain member server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP authentication and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and access to shared files and printers from Unix clients.

System administrators who are familiar with Samba and want a handy reminder of how to administer it without the bulk of a full-sized book will find this pocket reference invaluable.

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"[Consumers] will find the fine 'pocket references' produced by O'Reilly to be compact and affordable."
-- James Cox, The Computer Shelf: Midwest Book Review

"Overall, an excellent tutorial and reference manual! Don't take my word for it: this book has been adopted by the Samba project development team as the official documentation"
--Jim Craner, NPOTechs.org, February 2004
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"An ultraconcise guide to the contents of the smb.conf file as well as to smbd and nmbd, this book also covers utilities like smbclient, smbstatus, smbtar, and rpcclient. It'll jog your memory and save you a trip through the man pages."
--David Wall and Teri Kieffer, Amazon.com Delivers Computer Networking & Operating Systems, May 30, 2001

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