> Eric Johnson wrote: > > So my question is... Which one is the book everyone figures is the best? and Joel replied: > The book that comes free with SWAT is fine.
That would be Using Samba, 1st edition, the version that I "lifted" (legally; it's an Open Content book) from O'Reilly's website and put into its current form. And now I'm the author who is doing the 2nd edition "upgrade" for O'Reilly, and I have to say, the 1st edition is way out of date in many ways. However, it's free (always a good price :) and covers the basics, so it's possible to get by on it pretty easily, if you are willing to also dig into the man pages (especially for smb.conf) and other documents included in the Samba release (in docs/textdocs and docs/htmldocs) to catch up to Samba 2.2.x or 3.0. It's taken a long time for the 2nd edition to come out, partly because I'm a slow writer, and partly because I want everything to be just right (and partly because O'Reilly waited a rather long time to offer me the job! :0). But hopefully it will be out in a few months, and be _a_lot_ better than the 1st edition. And maybe even worth actual money - I hope!!! :) In the meantime, there are other books on Samba, some of them written by members of the Samba team (Gerry Carter and Richard Sharpe). I would suggest looking into those as well. Jay Ts [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
