"Special Edition Using Samba 3.0 provides a level of detail unsurpassed by other books while presenting it in an approachable manner. It is designed to be a resource that offers detailed and authoritative information on Samba and all the new facilities of Samba 3.0. It presents the how-to of configuring and managing Samba, as well as the what and why to help users reason about Samba for themselves.This book provides detailed up-to-date information on integrating Samba with Microsoft Active Directory, a feature new to Samba 3.0 that users have been requesting for over a year. It also discusses and explains the new virtual file system technology in Samba and shows how to implement auditing, and the other features in Samba.