# Samba documentation collection

SAMBA Developers Guide | This book is a collection of documents that might be useful for people developing samba or those interested in doing so. It's nothing more than a collection of documents written by samba developers about the internals of various parts of samba and the SMB protocol. It's still (and will always be) incomplete.
Samba-3 by Example | Practical Exercises in Successful Samba Deployment.
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide | This book provides example configurations, it documents key aspects of Microsoft Windows networking, provides in-depth insight into the important configuration of Samba-3, and helps to put all of these into a useful framework.

Using Samba, 2nd Edition

Using Samba, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration. It covers all versions of Samba from 2.0 to 2.2, including selected features from an alpha version of 3.0, as well as the SWAT graphical configuration tool. Updated for Windows 2000, ME, and XP, the book also explores Samba's new role as a primary domain controller and domain member server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP authentication and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and accessing shared files and printers from Unix clients.

Man pages | The Samba man pages in HTML.
WHATSNEW | Samba Release Notes.
README.VENDOR | VENDOR specific information.