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Summary: Not a fast solution
Review: This book is concise, easy to read, get-to-the-point, hands-on and current. The first six chapters are very easy to follow and do not contain excessive or irrelevant materials. I spent four hours (finished the first 6 chapters) and a Samba 2.0.3 is up-and-running.A very few details are missing. In particular, chapter six does not say that you need to be "su" to run smbpasswd to initialize encrypted SMB passwords. Overall, a great book for Samba starters!
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Summary: A good book for People
Review: This was one of the first few Unix books I read when I had little experience in Unix administration. It gives detailed account on Samba development and how it works with windows networking. So if you have learnt some stuff already in Unix and Windows administration and if you are interested to have a brief account on how it works, then this 24 hour series surely will give you a nice introduction. More importantly, the book guides the readers step by step on how to get the latest source of Samba, how to compile it, how to install it, how to configure it and how to get it work with 98/NT . Indeed the book has put together a whole picture of Samba that everyone should begin with and could easily comprehend. I set up mine successfully with the book. However to really get Samba in production with this 24 series, I think more details on Samba configuration and security issue should be discussed if this series intend to serve Unix newbies like me. It is hard to follow the instructions to set up the password to control communication between NT and Unix. I suggest there should be some relevent Unix topic to be introduced in the book. To conclude, this 24 series is really a good guide for people strong in Unix especially when we consider this book is one of the earliest books on Samba topics. The book is of quite excellent quality.
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