[ale] Samba Books?

[Wandered Inn]

Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

> I'm always concerned that the information presented by a book in print lags
> behind the capabilities of the software product.  Besides there's so much
> information available free on the web.

You are absolutely correct, and you will find that you MUST supplement
the book with the information on the Samba doc site.

> 
> Does this book discuss plain text vs. encrypted passwords?  Was the
> encrypted password problem solved before the book was printed?  If so, does
> it discuss migrating from plain text to encrypted passwords?

Yes, it covers both encrypted passwords and how to enable them.

> 
> Does it discuss the beta of PAM_SMB password authentication?

It talks about PAM in general, but not much specific information, so I
would say no.

> 
> I'm just wondering.  I've been struggling through a samba installation that
> doesn't seem to work the way I think it should, but I'm pretty sure that I
> need the above two features and I need a resource that will discuss them.

Not that I know that much about it, but I've currently got Samba running
on my main machine and I'm able to share drives and printers via:

Two different win95 machines, one machine that boots either NT or Linux.
I've got a printer hanging off one win95 box that I can print to from
all the other machines/OSs and another hanging off my Linux/Samba box,
which I can print to from all the other machines/OSs.

The authentication was an issue with the NT box primarily.  I've got my
smbpasswd file set up.  I'd be glad to field questions you might have,
not guaranteeing any answers.  One note, I've tried to set up Samba in
the past two times before without being able to get it to work
completely.  I'm currently running 2.0.3 rpm flavor and the
documentation, particularily in the sample smb.conf file is
substantially better then previous versions.

> 
> I'm probably going to buy the book I just wanted your input on the above.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stan

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