Samba-3 Forthcoming book Release

Media Contact:
Heather Fox
Addison-Wesley/ Prentice Hall PTR 
heather.fox@pearsoned.com
201.236.7139 (phone)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE			
									
PRENTICE HALL PTR ANNOUNCES THE FORTHCOMING OFFICIAL BOOK GUIDE TO SAMBA-3

Samba-Team Co-Founder Terpstra and Team Member Vernooij Edit the First Book
on Samba 3 

Upper Saddle River, NJ (September, 25 2003) - Prentice Hall PTR, the
leading publisher of advanced technology books, announces the forthcoming
release of, "The Official Samba- 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", (ISBN
0131453556), to publish in November, 2003 as the first book written for the
newest Samba code release, Samba-3.0.0. The book is being written through a
collaboration among the core developers of the Samba-Team and expert
end-users, and is being co-edited by John H. Terpstra, a Samba-Team
co-founder, and Jelmer R. Vernooij, a critical member of the Samba
development team.

"The Official Samba- 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", part of the Prentice
Hall PTR Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, will be the definitive book for
all Samba administrators, with special attention given to Windows
administrators migrating to Samba. The book exists as a comprehensive
compilation of critical questions and answers that have been cultivated
from Samba mailing lists, as well as new information written exclusively
for the book, such as the chapter titled "FastStart: Cure for the
Impatient", which presents several examples of total system
configurations.

"We've gone over a mountain of questions that real-world users have raised
and in this book, have posed both the questions and provided the answers
that solve their problems in the 'Common Errors' section included within
each chapter," Terpstra said.
The book will include extensive coverage of features new to Samba-3. As its
approach, the book opens with a basic installation guide, including user
policies, desktop profiles and server configuration, and then progresses to
cover advanced installation and configuration guidelines.

"The sheer volume of different types of documentation [on Samba] has proved
difficult to navigate, thus reducing its value to system administrators, as
they try to cope with the complexity," said Andrew Tridgell, President of
the Samba-Team.

"This book gathers together that wealth of information into a much more
accessible form, to allow system administrators to quickly find what they
need. The breadth of technical information provided ensures that even the
most demanding of administrators will find something they need," he said.

Co-Editor John Terpstra is a co-founder of the Samba-Team. He is heavily
involved in creating the strategy behind Samba. He plays a central role in
answering user questions and writing the resulting documentation. He is
also a full-time consultant providing business process and mentoring
services. Co-Editor Jelmer Vernooij is author of the multiple password
backend technology in Samba-3 and has made many contributions to the Samba
project.

The Prentice Hall PTR Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, edited by open
source evangelist and developer Bruce Perens, publishes books focused on
Linux and open source technologies, including new and emerging
technologies. Each book in the Series is published under the Open
Publication License, an open source-compatible book license.

Concurrent with the OPL, the contents of "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and
Reference Guide" will be released to the public several months after the
book's November, 2003 publication date.

To interview Terpstra and Vernooij  about Samba and/or if you're interested
in writing a review of this book, please contact Prentice Hall
PTR/Addison-Wesley Publicist Heather Fox at 201-236-7139 or email:
heather.fox@pearsoned.com.

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