February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Acknowledgments
We thank Leon Towns-von Stauber for thoroughly researching the use of Samba on Mac OS X and writing material that appears in Chapter 2, Chapter 5, and Chapter 10, as well as the entire Appendix F. We also thank our technical reviewers Sam Johnston, Matthew Temple, Marty Leisner, and Don McCall.
Jay Ts
This book would have been extremely difficult to write if it hadn’t been for the copy of VMware Workstation graciously provided by VMware, Inc. I want to thank Rik Farrow for his clarifying comments on security topics related to Samba and Windows, and both him and Rose Moon for their supportive friendship. Thanks also go to Mark Watson for his encouragement and advice on the topic of authoring technical books. Additionally, I’d like to express my appreciation to Andy Oram at O’Reilly for being a supportive, friendly, and easygoing editor, and for offering me terms that I could say yes to—something that a few other publishers didn’t even approach. SuSE, Inc. generously provided a copy of SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional.
Robert Eckstein
I’d first like to recognize Dave Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly for all their help in the creation of this book. I’d also like to thank each technical reviewer who helped polish this book into shape on such short notice: Matthew Temple, Jeremy Allison, and of course Andrew Tridgell. Andrew and Jeremy deserve special recognition, not only for creating such a wonderful product, but also for providing a tireless amount of support in the final phase ...
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