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Summary: From beginners to experts
Review: 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.
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Summary: Readable and recommended.
Review: Carter has written a readable book that covers Samba installation, step by step, while explaining the netbios and SMB protocols along the way. Each chapter has a "Q&A" session highlighting common questions and providing answers. Most people will install Samba (including me), get it talking to Windows clients and then move on to something else. Carter continues, and even touches on getting Macs connected to Samba. The author also briefly covers installing and configuring SSL (encryption). For individuals who don't have a lot of UNIX experience, I would say hands down, this is the best introductory book. This book is highly readable, aimed at the beginner.
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Summary: From beginners to experts
Review: Covers perfectly the Samba installation from the firsts steps, but also the 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.
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Summary: Great book !!!
Review: If you want your linux box can be connected to your windows in no time, then this book is for you. It will guide you step by step from getting, compile and install the package. Each chapter is based on the previous one, but if you want to jump directly to the chapter that interested you, the author will give a short explaination about the basic you need to know. This book gives the why, and how for networking between windows and linux. More over this book can protect you from falling into the hole that not visible for the novice ( like me ). Thanks a lot to the author, you have done a great job
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Summary: Lives up to its promise, Samba in 24 hours.
Review: In a world of Linux How-To's and online documentation that is full of details, but short on explanation, Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours fills the void. The author goes beyond the configuration syntax to expain the details behind each setting, in a progressive and logical manner. I began the book after many attempts of configuring Samba, I finished with a working implimentation that I understand.
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Summary: Great book though the title lies
Review: No one is going to teach themselves Samba in 24 hours. So the title lies. On the other hand you can learn enough Samba to set up a file system that Windows 95 can read in a day. You can set up a printer (which also requires knowledge of UNIX System administration) in a couple of days. The issue of encrypted passwords is harder. Despite the book's less than clear discussion of the issue if you pay attention you will succeed at this task. The book is poorly written and organized but it is indispensible especially on the topic of setting up Samba so that NT (which has encrypted passwords) can use Samba drives. I'd rate the book 5 stars on content and 1 stars on presentation of content. The average is 3 stars.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Real easy book to get SAMBA up and running. You have to have some knowledge of Linux to begin with, but after reading this book, I was able to replace two NT file servers with a Linux box. This book shows pretty much everything you can do with SAMBA, tells what SAMBA cannot do, and what SAMBA has in the future.
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Summary: Assistance without Help
Review: 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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Summary: Assistance without Help
Review: 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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Summary: One hour - up and running!
Review: The online Samba documentation is too complete and expansive to be read and comprehended in a single sitting. This book does an excellent job of introducing the information in the order you need to know it, starting with high-level overviews of the concepts and the details later. The "24 Hours" is a bit of an exageration, though. It only took me one hour to read the first 5 chapters - enough information for me to get a server up and running.
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