samba - Jan 2005 - Article about Samba for "Software 2.0 Extra!"

Hello,

We are currently working on an issue of Software 2.0 Extra! magazine devoted 
exclusively to programming in Linux. We want to show our readers, how to 
programming in Linux and show them interesting projects about this problem. 
Also we want to show them usefull tools, which make his work more simply.

I think it would be great if we could including your or somebody from 
Samba-teams article about Samba. It may be something very easy, like 
installation & configuration, with some your tips. Of course, we including 
Samba into cover CD, which will be added to our magazine.
Now is my question: would you be interested in writing an article about Samba? 

On the technical side, the planned length of the article would be around 30000 
characters (about 6 pages in print) with some listing of codes, screen-shots. 
The deadline for the final version is 13.01.2005.

Our magazine appears in four language versions: Polish (Poland), French
(France, Belgium, Canada), German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and
Spanish (Spain, Portugal) with a total circulation of about 30000. Each
issue is devoted to a different area of IT, with a general focus on
programming.

Please let me know if you are interested in cooperating with us on this
issue, so we can start working on the text as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Dawid Federowicz
Editor in Chief
"Software 2.0 Extra!"
-- 
Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o.
ul. Lewartowskiego 6,
00-190 Warszawa
POLAND
tel.: +48 22 860-17-60
fax.: +48 22 860-17-71
http://www.software20.org
dawid.federowicz@software.com.pl

> We are currently working on an issue of Software 2.0 Extra! magazine
devoted
> exclusively to programming in Linux. We want to show our readers, how to 
> programming in Linux and show them interesting projects about this problem.
> Also we want to show them usefull tools, which make his work more simply.
> I think it would be great if we could including your or somebody from 
> Samba-teams article about Samba. It may be something very easy, like 
> installation & configuration, with some your tips. Of course, we
including
> Samba into cover CD, which will be added to our magazine.
> Now is my question: would you be interested in writing an article about
> Samba? 
Since the emphasis is on programming how about an article concerning what is
possible with some of the bindings?  I think there is a binding to libsmb for
Python in the samba source?  I see almost nothing about actual use of these and
I for one am curious to know more and what (if anything) these bindings can
actually be used for.

Dawid,

You are welcome to use any chapter of my book "Samba-3 by Example" for
this
magasine. I would suggest chapter 5 or 6 as it is they are the most 
interesting. A future article could be based on Chapters 8 and/or 9.

This book is part of the official Samba documentation. It has also been 
published by Prentice-Hall (Addison Wesley). It provides completely canned 
network solutions for a series of progessively larger and more complex 
networks. If an administrator chooses the chapter that represents his 
business need and then follows each step carefully he/she will have a fully 
functional network implementation.

If you would like me to write a specific separate article I could do that, but 
not before your deadline.

You can download the "Samba-3 by Example" book from the Samba web
site. It has
been released under the GPL license terms. All I ask is that you give proper 
attribution in your publication. The URL is:

	http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

If you visit http://www.samba.org/samba/docs you will also find links to the 
HTML version.

Kindest regards,
John T.

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 04:35, Dawid Federowicz
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are currently working on an issue of Software 2.0 Extra! magazine
> devoted exclusively to programming in Linux. We want to show our readers,
> how to programming in Linux and show them interesting projects about this
> problem. Also we want to show them usefull tools, which make his work more
> simply.
>
> I think it would be great if we could including your or somebody from
> Samba-teams article about Samba. It may be something very easy, like
> installation & configuration, with some your tips. Of course, we
including
> Samba into cover CD, which will be added to our magazine.
> Now is my question: would you be interested in writing an article about
> Samba?
>
> On the technical side, the planned length of the article would be around
> 30000 characters (about 6 pages in print) with some listing of codes,
> screen-shots. The deadline for the final version is 13.01.2005.
>
> Our magazine appears in four language versions: Polish (Poland), French
> (France, Belgium, Canada), German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and
> Spanish (Spain, Portugal) with a total circulation of about 30000. Each
> issue is devoted to a different area of IT, with a general focus on
> programming.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in cooperating with us on this
> issue, so we can start working on the text as soon as possible.
>
> Best regards,
> Dawid Federowicz
> Editor in Chief
> "Software 2.0 Extra!"
> --
> Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o.
> ul. Lewartowskiego 6,
> 00-190 Warszawa
> POLAND
> tel.: +48 22 860-17-60
> fax.: +48 22 860-17-71
> http://www.software20.org
> dawid.federowicz@software.com.pl
-- 
John H Terpstra
Samba-Team Member
Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668

Author:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.