# Paperback: 447 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 3 edition (January 23, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596007698
# ISBN-13: 978-0596007690
# Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.2 inches
# Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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Samba, the Server Message Block (SMB) machine code that makes it relatively cushy to combine Unix or UNIX servers into networks of Microsoft Windows workstations, has to fellow been mostly explained as an afterthought. Most often, it’s appeared in the latter chapters of books most Linux. It deserves better, and the authors of Using Samba hit delivered just that.
This aggregation documents Samba 2.0.4 flooded (version 2.0.5, maker and binary, appears on the consort CD-ROM), centering on smbd, nmbd, the command-line tools, and Samba’s newfound knowledge to combine itself securely with Windows NT domains.
Though it includes a taste of aggregation on the SMB and Common cyberspace File System (CIFS) protocols that lie Samba, the inflection here is on environment up and configuring software. Explicit sections vindicate how to establish Samba on a Unix/Linux grouping and how to ordered up Microsoft clients to transmit with the Samba machine. The authors clear prodigal tending to the Samba plan file, smb.conf, and vindicate just what settings you requirement to earmark in it to earmark round shares, meshwork browsing, and combining with Windows domains. A highly multipurpose meaning that lists every Samba plan options (along with their legal values, choice values, and explanations) appears in an appendix. –David Wall
Topics covered: All aspects of environment up and configuring Samba 2.0 and its variants, including machine configuration, enter sharing, meshwork browsing, enter grouping differences between Windows and Unix/Linux, security, and the table of the Samba plan file. –This aggregation refers to an discover of indicant or unobtainable edition of this title.
Product Description
This aggregation is the broad pass to Samba administration, officially adoptive by the Samba Team. Wondering how to combine Samba’s marker with that of a Windows domain? How to intend Samba to support Microsoft Dfs shares? How to deal files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen another issues of welfare to grouping administrators are covered. A flooded chapter is sacred to troubleshooting!
The arrange of this aggregation knows some bounds. Using Samba takes you from base artefact and plan — on both the machine and machine side, for a panoramic arrange of systems — to impalpable info of security, cross-platform compatibility, and inventiveness brainstorm that attain the disagreement between whether users wager the folder they wait or a inscrutable nonachievement message.
The underway edition covers much modern 3.x features as:
* Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP
* Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba
* Delegating administrative tasks to non-root users
* Central machine management
* Advanced enter bringing features, much as making ingest of Virtual File System (VFS) plugins.
Samba is a cross-platform triumph: robust, pliant and fast, it turns a Unix or UNIX grouping into a enter and indicant machine for Microsoft Windows meshwork clients. This aggregation module support you attain your enter and indicant distribution as coercive and economical as possible. The authors withdraw into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unexampled degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of apiece feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself.
Whether you’re activity on your individualized machine or an project network, on digit state or a flooded three-octave range, Using Samba module provide you an economical and bonded server.
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