updating README a little; (bug 214)

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 41 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 725a26523a5..f529610ef43 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a development version  of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
-server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
+server for UNIX and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
 the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
 
 >>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
@@ -13,35 +13,36 @@ copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
 called COPYING). 
 
 
-WHAT IS SMB?
-============
+WHAT IS SMB/CIFS?
+=================
 
 This is a big question. 
 
 The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
 PC-related machines share files and printers and other information
 such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
-support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
-packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
-VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers
-can speak this protocol as well.  Alternatives to SMB include
-Netware, NFS, Appletalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have
-advantages but none are both public specifications and widely
-implemented in desktop machines by default.
-
-The Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
+support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives), 
+OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux.  Add on packages that achieve the same 
+thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds, 
+MVS, and more.  Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well 
+(smb://).  Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk, 
+Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are 
+both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines 
+by default.
+
+The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
 is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
 
 
 WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
 ==============================
 
-1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft or IBM style desktop
-   machines with their Unix or VMS (etc) servers.
+1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft desktop clients
+   with their Unix servers.
 
 2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
-   or VMS (etc) servers. This is a different problem to integrating
-   desktop clients.
+   servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop 
+   clients.
 
 3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
    especially when used with PCs.
@@ -50,18 +51,26 @@ WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
 WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
 ==================
 
-Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. For
-many networks this can be simply summarised by "Samba provides a complete
-replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
+Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt included with this README for
+a list of features in the latest Samba release.
+
+Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. 
+For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides 
+a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
 
 - a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print 
   services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
 
+- a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement.
+
+- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0
+  or Active Directory domain.
+
 - a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives 
   browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
 
 - a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
-printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems
+  printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems
 
 - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
 
@@ -73,16 +82,14 @@ http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
 
 Related packages include:
 
-- smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
-filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with
+- smbfs, a Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
+filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included as standard with
 Linux 2.0 and later.
 
-- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
-networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip.
+- cifsvfs, a more advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount 
+remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included 
+as standard with Linux 2.5 and later.
 
-- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
-easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
-ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/smblib.
 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS
@@ -90,9 +97,10 @@ CONTRIBUTIONS
 
 If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
 please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
-(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
-and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
-samba@lists.samba.org.
+(preferably in "diff -u" format, see http://samba.org/samba/devel/ 
+for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or 
+suggestions to the address samba@lists.samba.org.  More information
+on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at http://lists.samba.org/.
 
 You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see
 http://samba.org/cvs.html.
@@ -107,7 +115,7 @@ If you like a particular feature then look through the CVS change-log
 who added it, then send them an email.
 
 Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
-we get. If noone tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
+we get. If no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
 something else. However, as you can see from the user survey quite a lot of 
 people do seem to like it at the moment :-)
 
@@ -119,17 +127,16 @@ DOCUMENTATION
 -------------
 
 There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
-including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
+including man pages, and lots of .html files with hints and useful
 info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
-collection of information under docs/faq; by the next release expect
-this to be the default starting point.
+collection of information under docs/.
 
 A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
 available on the web page.
 
 If you would like to help with the documentation (and we _need_ help!)
 then have a look at the mailing list samba-docs, archived at
-http://lists.samba.org/
+http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/samba-docs/
 
 
 MAILING LIST
@@ -197,12 +204,12 @@ A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list.
 NEWS GROUP
 ----------
 
-You might also like to look at the usenet news group
-comp.protocols.smb as it often contains lots of useful info and is
-frequented by lots of Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup
-by people on the Samba mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to
-Samba, it is a forum for discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba
-implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
+You might also like to look at the usenet news group comp.protocols.smb 
+as it often contains lots of useful info and is frequented by lots of 
+Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup by people on the Samba 
+mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to Samba, it is a forum for 
+discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba implements). The samba list 
+is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
 
 
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