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May 25, 2006
Learning to do the Samba
Using Samba, 2nd Edition
Author: David Collier-Brown, Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts
Year: 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates
ISBN: 0-596-00256-4
I just got finished setting up a Linux server in my living room. It's running on an old Pentium computer that's not very fast and has a minimul amount of memory. I'm using Ubuntu Linux which installed with no trouble, and is very easy to configure.
The one thing I did have some trouble configuring was Samba. So I turned to O'Reilly. Their books are always very informative. Using Samba is no exception. It explains that Samba is software that allows a Linux server to host files for a mixed Windows/Linux/Unix network. (Which is what I have in my house now.) It takes you step by step through configuring the Samba server and both Windows and Linux clients. I was able to get things up and running in under an hour. The rest of the book talks about fine-tuning the system, which is something I have to do now.
Tags: linux, samba, ubuntu
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