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Fully Updated to Reflect Major Improvements and Configuration Changes in Samba-3.0.11 through 3.0.20+! You've deployed Samba: Now get the most out of it with today's definitive guide to maximizing Samba performance, stability, reliability, and power in your production environment. Direct from members of the Samba Team, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, Second Edition, offers the most systematic and authoritative coverage of Samba's advanced features and capabilities. It has been extensively updated to reflect major improvements in the Samba-3.0 series of releases and additional performance enhancements in Samba-3.0.20 and later. Use this book to go far beyond basic deployment, leveraging all of Samba's components, from directory services to remote administration. Use it to find practical optimization techniques for any environment, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Use it to find detailed guidance and best practices for troubleshooting and problem solving. And, if your background is in Windows networking, use this book to get up to speed rapidly with Samba network administration in Linux/UNIX environments. Coverage includes*NEW!User Rights and Privileges features and their impact on default system behavior *NEW! Expanded LDAP capabilities, the new Winbind subsystem, and Samba's improved ACL handling *NEW! Detailed coverage of the powerful Samba-3.x net local/remote administration utility *NEW! Comprehensive documentation of IDMAP functionality *NEW! Proven techniques for improving performance with large directories *NEW! Samba integration with Windows Server 2003 and the latest versions of Active Directory *Advanced techniques: interdomain trusts, loadable VFS file system drivers, distributed authentication, desktop profile management, CUPS printing, high availability, and more *Contains a dramatically improved, more-detailed index

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Fully Updated to Reflect Major Improvements and Configuration Changes in Samba-3.0.11 through 3.0.20+!

You’ve deployed Samba: Now get the most out of it with today’s definitive guide to maximizing Samba performance, stability, reliability, and power in your production environment. Direct from members of the Samba Team, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, Second Edition, offers the most systematic and authoritative coverage of Samba’s advanced features and capabilities. It has been extensively updated to reflect major improvements in the Samba-3.0 series of releases and additional performance enhancements in Samba-3.0.20 and later.

Use this book to go far beyond basic deployment, leveraging all of Samba’s components, from directory services to remote administration. Use it to find practical optimization techniques for any environment, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Use it to find detailed guidance and best practices for troubleshooting and problem solving. And, if your background is in Windows networking, use this book to get up to speed rapidly with Samba network administration in Linux/UNIX environments.

Coverage includes

NEW! User Rights and Privileges features and their impact on default system behavior
NEW! Expanded LDAP capabilities, the new Winbind subsystem, and Samba’s improved ACL handling
NEW! Detailed coverage of the powerful Samba-3.x net local/remote administration utility
NEW! Comprehensive documentation of IDMAP functionality
NEW! Proven techniques for improving performance with large directories
NEW! Samba integration with Windows Server 2003 and the latest versions of Active Directory
Advanced techniques: interdomain trusts, loadable VFS file system drivers, distributed authentication, desktop profile management, CUPS printing, high availability, and more
Contains a dramatically improved, more-detailed index

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Paperback: 944 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (August 18, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131882228
ISBN-13: 978-0131882225
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5.0 out of 5 stars A printed version of the great online doc., March 4, 2004

By	Ruslan Moskalenko "Ruslan Moskalenko" (Pleasanton, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) (Paperback)

The book is great, it gives you all background, detailed description, step by step guides etc. All you need to know about samba is there. However you should keep in mind that this is pretty much a printed version of http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ , so the same content is available for free on the web site. I personally like old school paper books, that's the only reason I bought it. If you don't care, maybe you should check out the site first and it might be all you need.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The straight dope on Samba 3, authorative and indispensible, February 20, 2004

By	tmancill (Vancouver, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) (Paperback)

The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide is an ambitious work that is going to have a lot of admins slapping their foreheads and saying "Aha! So that's how it's done."

Having used Samba for quite a while, but never having felt confident enough to try anything overly exotic in the office, this book helped (and inspired) me to dust off my minimal configurations and go for more complete integration with the existing Windows infrastructure. The authors are knowledgable and speak from production experience, punctuating the technical content with helpful comments and best practices for folks who depend on Samba to get their job done. The tone of the book is also realistic about explaining what's in Samba, what might be in Samba, and what's not very likely to ever be in Samba. (I think it's great that members of the Samba team can be frank, and aren't taking advantage of an opportunity to toot their own horns, promise the moon and a bunch of vaporware.)

Even if you consider yourself fairly advanced with Samba configuration, this book - the distilled knowledge and experience of great number of HOWTOs and configuration examples - is likely to be useful for you. It's probably not for rank beginners, but that's part of being a good reference work for production admins.

My only complaint with the book has to do with a few typos and editing problems. (LaTex can be unforgiving, eh?) Also, I found Part II, the quick start/cookbook section, to be a little repetitive, and felt that it could have used a little more editorial oversight. (Hint: Don't read it straight through - you don't need to anyway.) But Part III, which is the meat of the book, is much better done, and I'd say damn near indispensible if you're serious about bridging the gulf between Un*x and Windows technologies in your workplace.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Become a SAMBA Guru painlessly :-), November 3, 2003

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This book is a great step by step guide, reference, and learning tool. The organization allowed me to drill into those areas of interest without having to wade through unnecessary details. When I wanted to drill into the technology - the information was there! I was able to find concise, accurate instructions, as well as theory and background. I think it is especially helpful to the Windows skilled sysadmin who is looking to deploy or support UNIX interoperability. Having the help files at the end of the book was also very helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone who has both Linux/Unix and Windows systems!

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