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Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument groupings, as well as for instrumental solos. Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each. This volume begins with a brief biography of Leighton and is followed by an alphabetical listing of works and performances. Also included is a discography and a bibliography of articles, reviews, books, and dissertations. The last section is a chronological list of compositions. Smith helps us to realize that Kenneth Leighton was an extraordinary composer of 20th-century music with a varied body of works and also a virtuoso pianist of some note. ... Read more

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Decryption of the title of Luke K.C. Leighton's book DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals can be found on pages 5 and 8. It stands for "Distributed Computing Environment Remote Procedure Calls over the Server Message Block." If this means nothing to you, at least understand this: the world of computation is transcending individual CPUs and is inhabiting a virtual environment where physically remote machines work together on complex projects by distributing procedures among themselves. It is the brave new world of computing, and its leading/bleeding edge will seem like alphabet soup for several years yet, until it suddenly becomes the bread and butter of our informatics infrastructure.

Leighton and four assistants have been developing a Unix-Windows NT distributed interoperability scheme since summer 1997. Leighton acknowledges that they are far from finished, but this book represents their collected notes as they partially network-reverse-engineer and partially document Microsoft's distributed computing remote procedure calls.

Leighton's fascinating first section describes the history and politics of communications protocol development and documentation/non-documentation strategies. He explains his apparently strange choice to ignore the official DCE/RPC documentation. The reason, he explains, is his group's motivation to network-reverse-engineer Microsoft's undocumented implementation, which is significantly dissimilar.

Boasting no figures at all, DCE/RPC over SMB consists of 217 pages of austere text ("written with vi and yodl... no GUIs were harmed") and 35 pages of appendices on Samba source code and Windows NT password and authentication methods. The book is a reference for do-it-yourselfers who want to use distributed computing in a Unix-Windows NT environment but can't afford the source license of Microsoft's DCE/RPC or need only a subset of Microsoft's DCE/RPC functionality.

In the minefield of proprietary protocols and software interoperability development, Laurie Petrycki and New Riders deserve special medals of valor for helping the free software community by publishing works in progress. DCE/RPC over SMB is the boldest mission yet. Single points of failure abound for both the project and the book. Even if Microsoft's implementation of RPC and SMB protocols remain quasi-static during Leighton's development time (Windows 2000 appears not to have undergone major changes), Microsoft could quite easily surprise the development community by publishing its own complete documentation, in which case all of the hard-won discoveries become redundant. The alternative, conceding "public" DCE/RPC interface and functionality issues in a multi-OS environment to Microsoft, is significantly less appealing. --Peter Leopold Book Description
Designed to provide in-depth technical information for CIFS implementers, network security experts, developers of network traffic analysis tools, developers of Windows NT software, and network administrators.DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals covers such topics as: implementing DCE/RPC over SMB in Samba; developing NT Domain administration functionality; understanding the internetworkings of Windows NT's internal security components; using the NT Service Control Manager over-the-wire; and managing a Windows NT SAM Database.If you deal with Windows NT development, security, or administration, DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals is an essential source of information on: encrypting DCE/RPC using NTLM Secure Service Provider; Viewing files, shares, and sessions that are open on a server; and adding, modifying, and deleting keys and values on the NT registry. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

If you really want to understand how SMB works buy this book
Luke has written an excellent guide to internal workings of SMB. If you want to contribute to Samba development or are just curious about Windows networking and what it is and howit works from the inside out then this is the book you need.

It's short on waffle and covers the subject to a depth that should satisfy any development project working on DCE/RPC over SMB.

I'm the author of the Samba Black Book and I'd recommend that you buy Luke's book if you want to learn and understand some of the workings of the Samba code.

good book to master the internal mechanism of SMB
I do recommend those who would like to learn about the internal details of SMB to buy this book. ... Read more

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October 1989 Collector's Edition. Features above artists, plus price review for 1988-1989. ... Read more