John Beamon wrote: <em>> <em>> well of COURSE Dustin wasn't impressed with it. He wrote his own <em>> windows-Linux book, published under a different company! <g> Hard to argue with that. In general, I'm pretty impressed with O'Reilly. Unfortunately, I think their Samba book tends to delve into unnecessary trivialities and then proceeds to not cover other interesting aspects enough or even at all. But hey, that's just me.. your mileage may vary. FWIW, I was REALLY dislike the SAMS Samba book. Regards, Dustin <em>> -j <em>> <em>> Dustin Puryear wrote: <em>> > <em>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <em>> > > <em>> > > I actually bought this book from O'Reilly in hard copy. Well worth having. <em>> > > And LUG members get a 20% discount. <em>> > <em>> > Actually, I'm not too fond of it. The fact that it's free makes it <em>> > better, but I've seen books that do a better job of working through <em>> > Samba. <em>> > <em>> > Regards, Dustin <em>> > <em>> > > <em>> > > John Beamon writes: <em>> > > <em>> > > > I'm not sure where it's bundled. It wasn't in Red Hat's rpm, but it may <em>> > > > be in the source package, which I haven't installed. Man, I hear <em>> > > > stories about these machines with enormous /usr/local's and all these <em>> > > > conf files and binaries everywhere and paragraphs of $PATH. Never seen <em>> > > > one in the wild, though. At any rate... <em>> > > > <em>> > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/ has links to the online book in <em>> > > > both html and pdf formats, including downloadable zips of the entire <em>> > > > book. If you've got bandwidth, time, toner and paper, it's there. :-) <em>> > > > <em>> > > > -j <em>> > > > <em>> > > > <em>> > > > "Melancon, Mike" wrote: <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > Dustin: <em>> > > > > Thanks for the highly informative and enjoyable presentation. One <em>> > > > > question...you had mentioned that there was a manual (O'Reilly if memory <em>> > > > > serves) bundled in w/Samba. Whereabouts might it be? I've checked <em>> > > > > /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3 and found some html, text, and man pages, but nothing <em>> > > > > that looks comprehensive enough to be called a manual. (the html and text <em>> > > > > look like converted man pages). Maybe I need to download the source <em>> > > > > distribution instead of the rpm that's already on my system? <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > Looking forward to the next meeting. <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > Peace, <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > Mike <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- <em>> > > > > Mike Melancon, Systems Administrator <em>> > > > > Louisiana Legislative Computer Center <em>> > > > > Room G-203, State Capitol <em>> > > > > 225-342-6244 <em>> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> > > > > "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create <em>> > > > > yourself. " - Ken Thompson <em>> > > > > <em>> > > > > ================================================ <em>> > > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > > > > your subscription information. <em>> > > > > ================================================ <em>> > > > ================================================ <em>> > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > > > your subscription information. <em>> > > > ================================================ <em>> > > <em>> > > ================================================ <em>> > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > > your subscription information. <em>> > > ================================================ <em>> > <em>> > -- <em>> > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>> > In the beginning the Universe was created. <em>> > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. <em>> > - Douglas Adams <em>> > ================================================ <em>> > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > your subscription information. <em>> > ================================================ <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================
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