Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

by Gerald Carter

The open source Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This text shows how to configure, run and troubleshoot Samba. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672322692
• ISBN13: 9780672322693
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

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.

Concise, get-to-the-point, and current

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!

Best Book in Samba

This book clearly explains how to setup Samba and use it as file/printer server. If only I had this book when I setup our Linux Server it would have saved me some trouble of reading the HOW-Tos and other documents that comes with the program.It clearly explains not only how to set it up but also how Samba works. I'm only in Chapter 7 right now but I already understood a lot of things which was not clear before. I'm going thru the whole book and see how I can improve the samba setup that I did.This book is for those who wants to replace their NT servers but loaths to replace their Windows desktops. Now, you can setup a Linux box with Samba, replace your NT server and the only thing that users will notice is that there's no more downtime.

One hour - up and running!

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.

an excellent, technically accurate Samba guide

This is an excellent book. I must admit that I was just a tad nervous when I first saw it as I usually try to check over Samba books before they are released to make sure they don't have any major errors. I didn't get a chance with this one so it was great to see that Gerald and Richard have got everything right, even some stuff that is wrong in the Samba docs (yes, we'll fix that eventually ...)I particularly liked the clear explanation of security models in Samba, as I know that many users have problems with that, which is understandable as much of it is quite counter-intuitive.John Blair's book was good, but is now a bit dated as so much has changed in Samba 2.0. It is great to now see a book that is up to date with the latest changes and that explains the inner workings of Samba so well. Andrew Tridgell