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Welcome to the world of Samba! We will spend the next 24 hours together learning about a tool that can help you integrate your UNIX servers and Windows clients. You can break the 24 hours up any way you like. You can even take longer if you prefer. This book contains 24 lessons on what I consider to the most important information you need to know about Samba.
Every lesson includes sample configurations to use, diagrams to illustrate concepts, and hands-on examples. There is even a section at the end of each chapter that summarizes things we've learned and provides answers to some common questions that you may ask.
After you work through all the lessons, you should find a place on your shelf for this book close to your desk or computer so that you can refer to it. In short, I believe that this book will be a good investment for you. The chapters contain information and examples that I use daily at my own job where I maintain multiple Samba servers. I hope that you'll find it useful.
Webster's Dictionary defines Samba as "a Brazilian dance of African origin characterized by a dip and a spring upward with a bending of the knee at each beat of the music." That is not the Samba I am going to talk about here. In fact, at no time in this book will you ever be asked to dance (unless of course you feel like it when something works!).
Samba is an implementation of a Server Message Block (SMB) protocol server that can be run on almost every variant of UNIX in existence. Microsoft clients can use this protocol to access files and printers located on your UNIX box just as though it were a native Windows server.
Samba is an open source project just like Linux (a UNIX-like operating systems for PCs). The source code, written in C, is always available to you to explore, test, or change. And it's free!
The implication of these items is that Samba is being installed in more and more server rooms in order to provide services to Microsoft Windows clients without installing a Windows NT Server or any other SMB server.
Offices of all sizes can benefit from Samba. My mother even uses Samba! (No joke!) Her small office network of three computers uses a bare-bones PC running Linux and Samba to offer home directories, group disk shares, and shared printers. It is a simple, cost-effective solution for her to use and me to support (we live about three hours apart).
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