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Samba...

Posted by: cr on September 15, 2002 11:01 AM
...is an excellent tool, considering how much Microsoft tries to squirm to get away from its interoperability. That 'moving target' business does make it more complex.

The best resource I've found, bar none, is the O'Reilly book <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/">Using Samba</a oreilly.com>. After I downloaded and read through the online version, I went out and bought a dead-tree copy, I was that impressed, particularly with the troubleshooting tree, with the aid of which I was finally able to straighten out file and printer sharing on my own network.

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