“Using Samba Book Released; Officially Adopted by Samba
Team.“
“O’Reilly & Associates has announced the release of Using
Samba, which has been officially adopted by the Samba team under an
open content license. This new book is a comprehensive guide to
Samba administration, including such recent additions as
integration with Windows NT domains and the SWAT graphic
configuration tool.”
“Samba is a cross-platform triumph,” says Andy Oram, Editor,
O’Reilly & Associates. “It turns a Unix or Linux system into a
file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Now
you can let users store their files (and even important
executables) in a single place for easy sharing and backup,
protected by Unix or NT security mechanisms, and still offer such
transparent access that PC users don’t even realize they’re going
to another system. The magic behind Samba is that it recognizes and
speaks the SMB protocol developed by Microsoft for file and printer
sharing on its own systems.”