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Using Samba
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Using Samba

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
November 1999
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Organization

The book can be roughly divided into two sections: Samba installation (Chapter 1 through Chapter 3) and Samba configuration and optimization (Chapter 4 through Chapter 9). Here is a detailed breakdown of each of the chapters:

Chapter 1

This chapter introduces each of the Samba components and gives a brief overview of NetBIOS and Windows networking.

Chapter 2

This chapter covers configuring, compiling, installing, and testing the Samba server on a Unix platform.

Chapter 3

This chapter explains how to configure Microsoft Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0 clients to participate in an SMB network. It also gives a brief introduction to the SMB protocol in action.

Chapter 4

This chapter gets you up to speed with the individual parts of the Samba configuration file and shows you how to configure disk services.

Chapter 5

This chapter continues the discussion of disk options and examines browsing with Samba.

Chapter 6

This chapter discusses how to set up users, introduces you to Samba security, and shows you how to work with encrypted and non-encrypted passwords. We also discuss how to set up Samba as a primary domain controller for Windows 95/98 and NT clients.

Chapter 7

This chapter discusses printer and Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) setup with Samba.

Chapter 8

This chapter bundles several miscellaneous activities associated with Samba, such as configuring Samba shares for programmers, internationalization issues, and backing up with smbtar.

Chapter 9

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