The Best-Selling Samba Books of All Time

* Covers the new, forthcoming release of Samba 3. * Demonstrates how to integrate Samba with other network protocols, such as NFS, AppleTalk, LPD, IPP, DNS, and NTP. * Clear and concise, the books describes the inner working of SMB/CIFS, and how to configure and maintain the Samba software on many platforms, including Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, Mac OS X (Jaguar and Panther), and Windows.

This book is the comprehensive guide to Samba administration, officially adopted by the Samba Team. Wondering how to integrate Samba's authentication with that of a Windows domain? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting! The range of this book knows few bounds.

Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration -- on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems -- to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether users see the folder they expect or a cryptic error message. The current edition covers such advanced 3.x features as:. Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAPMigrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to SambaDelegating administrative tasks to non-root usersCentral printer managementAdvanced file serving features, such as making use of Virtual File System (VFS) plugins. Samba is a cross-platform triumph: robust, flexible and fast, it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. This book will help you make your file and print sharing as powerful and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself. Whether you're playing on your personal computer or an enterprise network, on one note or a full three-octave range, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

In the 1990s before you were born, UNIX system managers were asked to facilitate communications between UNIX systems and Microsoft Windows. From the back Samba is the tool of choice for providing Windows file sharing an printer services from UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Freely available under the GNU Public License, Samba allows UNIX machines to be seamlessly integrated into a Windows network without installing any additional software on the Windows machine. Used in tandem with Linux or FreeBSD, Samba provides a low-dost alternative to the Windows NT server. [May it rest in peace.].