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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : sage-au@sage-au.org.au, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:27:43 +0900

The Great Samba Tshirt and Book Offer

The Great Samba Tshirt and Book Offer ...

Please forward this message to anyone you think may be interested.

My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.

The following items are available for sale to people in Australia:

1. Samba T-shirts

   Australian made and printed in Australia. They have the Samba logon
   on the front and the words "opening windows to a wider world" on the
   back along with the web-site location.

   See www.samba.org and follow the tshirt link for more details.

   Sizes: Medium, Large, Extra Large, XXL
   Price: AUD $20.00 plus AUD $2.95 postage within OZ (if applicable)

   Sizes: XXXL and XXXXL
   Price: AUD $22.00 plus AUD $2.95 postage within OZ (if applicable)

2. SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours by Gerry Carter with
   Richard Sharpe

   This 470+ page book covers Samba up to 2.0.3 and leads you through
   a range of subjects including obtaining Samba, installing it, and
   using it.  See further below for the chapter outline.

   Price: AUD $39.95 plus AUD $4.95 postage within OZ (if applicable)

3. Both the Tshirt and the book

   Price: AUD $57.00 plus AUD $4.95 postage within OZ (if applicable)
   (You save in postage, if applicable, and you get a discount.)

WHY SHOULD YOU BUY THESE ITEMS FROM ME?

Both the Samba Tshirt and the book are available from the US. You can
purchase the Tshirts from a Samba team member in the US and you can buy the
book from Amazon (www.amazon.com) or FatBrain (www.fatbrain.com).

By buying them from me, you are doing several things:

1. You are helping Australian members of the Samba team to attend 
   US conferences on CIFS.

   There is a once yearly conference on CIFS in the US, and the proceeds
   from the sale of the Tshirts will be directed towards the expenses of 
   Australian Samba team members who do not get their expenses paid.
   Andrew is about the only person who gets his expenses paid.

2. You are helping me to continue to work on Samba and to work on the
   next Samba book.

   I have to have an income and at the moment, I find increasingly 
   difficult to find time to work on Samba. Indeed, when
   I was working on the SAMS Teach Yourself Samba book, I spent a lot of
   time working on Samba. (For example, I had to fix the SSL support in 
   Samba 2.0.x as well as fix divergences between the documentation and
   the code.)

   Proceeds from the sale of the book will help me find time to work
   on Samba and to work on the next book.

3. You will help to keep more money in Australia, rather than it going
   straight out of the country to Amazon or Fatbrain. 

   In addition, if you buy from Amazon you may end up paying more
   than the above prices after freight is added in.

4. You can be among the first people in Australia to get these Tshirts and
   the book.

HOW TO PURCHASE THESE ITEMS?

Either, physically catch up with me somewhere, like LinuxSA meetings or the
SAGE-AU conference in July or other venues, or

Somehow get the following into your favourite editor (notepad, vi, emacs,
pico, jove, whatever), fill in the relevant details, print it off and send
it along with cheque or money order for the relevant amount to:

    NS Computer Software & Services P/L
    PO Box 86
    Ingle Farm
    SA 5098

Please make cheques payable to NS Computer Software & Services P/L.

Your order will be posted out within about two weeks (our first order for
shirts has just been placed and they take about two and a half weeks to be
processed).  Similarly, the book will be available in about two weeks.

Errors and Omissions Excepted. This offer is made in good faith in the
expectation that suppliers will supply our initial order. All cheques
promptly returned if we cannot supply the goods.

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The Great Samba Tshirt and Book Order Form

Date:

Name:

Please send me:

  [    ] Copies of the Samba T-shirt of Size (insert number)
            [   ]  Medium
            [   ]  Large
            [   ]  Extra Large
            [   ]  XXL

  (The total above should be the sum of the number of each size)

          at AUD 20.00 each plus AUD 2.95 postage each (see note below)

  [    ] Copies of the Samba T-shirt of size (insert number)
            [   ]  XXXL
            [   ]  XXXXL

	   at AUD 22.00 each plus AUD 2.95 postage each (see note below)

  (these may take a little longer)

  [    ] Copies of the book SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

          at AUD 39.95 each plus AUD 4.95 postage each (see note below)

If you order both items (a Tshirt and a book), the cost is AUD 57.00 plus
AUD 4.95 postage each pair.

Note, if you want more than one Tshirt or book, send me mail for a special
price on on the postage costs.

  I have included a cheque/money order for AUD __.__.

  PLEASE ENSURE YOU INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TWO PIECES OF INFORMATION!

  Postal Address:

  



  Email Address:

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The outline for the book SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours is:

Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

     Introduction 
          What Is Samba? 
          Why Teach Yourself Samba? 
          Who Should Use This Book? 
          What's Included on the CD-ROM? 
          Conventions Used in This Book 

Part I - Installation and Initial Configuration

     Hour 1 - Introduction to Samba 
          What Is Samba? 
          Traditional Solutions 
          What Platforms Does It Run On? 
          The GNU General Public License (GPL) 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 2 - Windows Networking 
          NetBIOS Overview 
          Name Service 
          Session Service 
          Datagram Service 
          CIFS Overview 
          SMB over NBT 
          Connection-Oriented 
          Protocol Overview 
          Windows Networking Models 
          Peer Networking 
          Workgroups 
          Domains 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 3 - Obtaining the Latest Source 
          Finding Out What Version of Samba You Currently Have 
          Download Sites and Methods 
          Compiling Samba 
          Pre-2.0 
          2.0's autoconf Support 
          What Goes Where When I Type Make Install? 
          Binary Distribution Methods 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 4 - Installing and Testing the Configuration 
          Which Processes? 
          Configuring the [global] Section of smb.conf 
          Setting up the Shared Group Directory 
          Setting Up a User's Home Directories 
          Setting Up the Printer 
          Verifying smb.conf 
          Starting smbd and nmbd 
          Starting from inetd 
          Running as a Daemon 
          System V Init Scripts 
          BSD-style Startup Scripts 
          Command-Line Arguments 
          Testing the Installation 
          Other Tools Included with Samba 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

Part II - Configuring Samba 

     Hour 5 - The smb.conf File: Telling Samba What to Do 
          Layout 
          Variables 
          Parameters 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 6 - Security Levels and Passwords 
          Security Levels and the security Parameter 
          Usernames and Passwords 
          Accessibility 
          Miscellaneous 
          Final Comments 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 7 - File Sharing 
          Building an smb.conf File 
          Setting Up a Share 
          Accessibility 
          Permissions 
          Special File Services 
          Filename Handling and Mangling 
          File Locking 
          Symbolic Links 
          Handling CD-ROMs 
          Other Parameters 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 8 - Printers 
          Samba and Printing 
          Supported Printing Styles 
          The [printers] Share 
          Printer-Related Parameters 
          Automatic Printer Driver Installation 
          Printing from UNIX to Windows 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 9 - GUI Administration Tools 
          SWAT 
          Webmin 
          smbconftool 
          smb-mode.el 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 10 - Server-Side Automation 
          What Is Server-Side Automation? 
          preexec and postexec Scripts 
          %U and %u, %G and %g 
          %L, %m, and the include Parameters 
          %d 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 11 - Troubleshooting 
          Documentation 
          Working the Problem from Both End 
          People 
          Network Sniffers 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 12 - Case Study: Replacing an NT File and Print Server 
          The Existing Network 
          The Linux Server 
          The Replacement Process 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

Part III - Using Samba

     Hour 13 - UNIX (smbclient, smbfs, smbwrapper, and Various Utilities) 
          smbclient 
          smbfs 
          smbwrapper 
          smbprint 
          smbtar 
          Other Clients 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 14 - Windows 9x and Windows NT 
          The Windows Network Redirector 
          Windows 9x 
          Windows NT 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 15 - Other SMB Clients 
          Microsoft Network Client Version 3.0 for MS-DOS 
          DAVE 2.1 for the Macintosh OS 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

Part IV - Samba Security

     Hour 16 - Password Synchronization 
          What's the Problem? 
          Password Synchronization Approaches 
          Samba-Based Password Synchronization 
          PAM-Based Password Synchronization 
          LDAP-Based Approaches 
          Problems 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 17 - SSL 
          Using SSL with Samba 
          Obtaining and Building SSL 
          Building Samba with SSL 
          Certificates and All That Jazz 
          Obtaining Certificates 
          Configuring Samba to Use SSL 
          Examples 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

Part V - Advanced Topics

     Hour 18 - Resolving NetBIOS Names Without Using Broadcasts 
          WINS 
          Why Is It Needed? 
          WINS and Windows 2000 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 19 - Local Subnet Browsing 
          Introduction to Browsing 
          Samba Browsing Parameters 
          Browsing Examples 
          Browsing Problems 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 20 - Routed Networks and Browsing 
          Browsing Across Subnets 
          Samba Configuration for Browsing Across Subnets 
          Sample Configurations 
          Workgroups Across Subnets 
          Domains Across Subnets 
          Troubleshooting Remote Browsing 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 21 - Windows 9x Domain Control 
          Domains Versus Workgroups 
          Setting Up the Samba Domain Controller 
          Setting Up a Windows 9x Client 
          Testing and Troubleshooting 
          Extra Stuff 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 22 - Experimental PDC Support 
          What Has Been Implemented and What Has Not 
          How Do I Get It? 
          How to Configure a Samba PDC for a Windows NT Domain 
          Adding the Clients 
          Additional Parameters 
          Profiles and Policies 
          Windows 2000 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Hour 23 - Tips and Tricks 
          Performance Tuning 
          Multiple Samba Servers on a Single Machine 
          Backing Up a Remote PC's Hard Disk 
          Faxing 
          Samba Across a PPP Link 
          Simple Domain Logon Script Tricks 
          Summary 
          Q&A 

     Hour 24 - Samba's Future 
          Primary Domain Controller Support 
          Account Databases 
          NTFS Access Control Lists 
          True Windows NT Printing 
          WINS Replication 
          Distributed File System 
          Windows 2000 
          Summary 
          Q&A 
          New Terms 

     Index 

	

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NIC-Handle:RJS96
NS Computer Software and Services P/L, 
Ph: +61-8-8281-0063, FAX: +61-8-8250-2080, 
Samba (Team member), Linux, Apache, Digital UNIX, AIX, C, ...
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

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