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Summary: Great Addition
Review: This book fills in where the author's "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" left off. It gives "real world" examples that make sense. The author assumes some admin experience on the readers part, however the examples build from small implementations through large-scale enterprise file & print sharing, so even those new to administration of Samba should find great value in both the books. I even found the discriptions of the smb protocol and how clients "talk" to servers and each other very easy to understand. If you liked the Official Samba-3 HOWTO... buy this to completely make use of the concepts by working the examples and learning solutions to some of the most common problems facing Samba admins. This book is like attending a training class, not just a "lecture" but actual hands-on tasks to enforce the concepts.
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Summary: Best Samba fileserver book around
Review: When I finished this book I decided that I had to recommned it because it is extremely helpful. There aren't many good examples of using Samba to solve real world fileserver problems on the web and none on any system man page that I have found, so it's a wonderfull reference. The chapter on using Samba with Windows is also very helpful Altogether this stuff makes it a great reference and a must have for me.I would recommend this book to anybody who needs a fileserver and is considering using SAMBA...even before any of the "administering" type books.
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