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This is a book about Samba. It is a tool, a derived work of the labors of many and of the diligence and goodwill of more than a few. This book contains material that has been
contributed in a persistent belief that each of us can add value to our neighbors as well as to those who will follow us.

This book is designed to meet the needs of the Microsoft network administrator. UNIX administrators will benefit from this book also, though they may complain that it is hard to
find the information they think they need. So if you are a Microsoft certified specialist, this book should meet your needs rather well. If you are a UNIX or Linux administrator, there
is no need to feel badly — you should have no diculty finding answers to your current concerns also.

There is admittedly a large number of Samba books on the market today and each book has its place. Despite the apparent plethora of books, Samba as a project continues to receive
much criticism for failing to provide sucient documentation. Samba is also criticized for being too complex and too dicult to configure. In many ways this is evidence of the success
of Samba as there would be no complaints if it was not successful.

The Samba Team members work predominantly with UNIX and Linux, so it is hardly surprising that existing Samba documentation should reflect that orientation. The original
HOWTO text documents were intended to provide some tips, a few golden nuggets, and if they helped anyone then that was just wonderful. But the HOWTOs lacked structure and
context. They were isolated snapshots of information that were written to pass information on to someone else who might benefit. They reflected a need to transmit more information
that could be conveniently put into manual pages.

The original HOWTO documents were written by dierent authors. Most HOWTO documents are the result of feedback and contributions from numerous authors. In this book we
took care to preserve as much original content as possible. As you read this book you will note that chapters were written by multiple authors, each of whom has his own style. This
demonstrates the nature of the Open Source software development process.

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