Book on samba

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:03:10 EST
Mark Polhamus said:

>Mark Glassberg wrote:
>> I need to recommend an entry level book on samba.  Any suggestions,
>> positive or negative, would be appreciated.
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>The book that happened to be in stock when I needed it was _SAMBA Essentials 
>for Windows Administrators_ by Gary Wilson (ISBN: 0130409421).  I thought it 
>was well organized and helpful, although the emphasis on webmin got in the way
>at times.

Another book I still find incredibly useful is the "original" Samba 
book:

	Samba, Integrating UNIX and Windows, by John D Blair,
	ISBN 1-57831-006-7, published in 1998 by Specialized Systems Consultants.
	Language: English. 

John Blair is also a member of the Samba dev team.  Though this book 
is incredibly dated at this point, and deals with Samba 1.x, the 
really nice thing about it is that John spent a lot of time in the 
beginning chapters explaining how MS networking actually works.  The 
amount of background info contained in this book is extraordinary, 
and unbelievably enlightening if you've been fortunate enough to 
spend your entire life in the UNIX world!

Though I wouldn't now recommend this book strictly for learning 
Samba, it is a great book to really understand how MS networking is 
supposed to work.  I'd bet even long time MCSEs could learn a thing 
or two from this book :)
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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