Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows [Paperback]

John D. Blair (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Specialized Systems Consultants; Pap/Com edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578310067
• ISBN-13: 978-1578310067
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,471,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For Microsoft networking gurus only, January 6, 2000

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Jason Shumate "jshumate9" (GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows (Paperback)

I do UNIX system administration for my company and I bought this book hoping it would help me offer UNIX printing services to our Windows 95/98 PCs. It was a waste of money. While this book is not terrible, neither is it for everyone. If you do not have a good knowledge of Microsoft networking concepts such as Master Browsers, this book will be as useless to you as it was to me. The explanations of Microsoft networking concepts so ineegral to Samba are very poor in this book. The author basically assumes that you know as much about Windows networking as he does. Example configs are poor and good luck trying to debug any problems you might have. If you don't know what a Domain Master Browser is, you would better off to do what I did and get the new O'Reilly and Associates book _Using Samba_ which does a much better job of explaining everything you need to know to make Samba work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! It's EASIER than you THINK!, December 4, 1999

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"bdunn" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows (Paperback)

Samba in a cinch. You pick up this book and within an hour you can have Samba running. There is really nothing to it. John Blair is a member of the Samba team, so he REALLY knows his stuff. He's also a remarkably good technical writer.

All the details are here, and the index is great. If you need something that this book doesn't cover, then you're way beyond me!

Have to setup Samba in a hurry? Overnight this book. The day you get it, flip through it for 10 minutes. Update the SMB.CONF file a bit. You're done - inside an hour - no question.

If you want to get fancy, this book covers that too. I haven't yet seen anything that wasn't in this book. In fact, I've found stuff that was in this book that I couldn't find ANYWHERE else.

Excellent book. Great to learn Samba. Great reference to keep handy afterward. Truly excellent book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Configuration guide, August 9, 1999

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Frayne (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows (Paperback)

A superb book that covers all aspects of samba Config. My only critisism is that it is somewhat out of date (latest Ver 2.05) but that is OK as the principles havent changed much. Combined with the info on the samba site this book is the bible of samba, a must have.