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-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
-the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
-
->>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
->>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
-
-NOTE: Installation instructions may be found in 
-      docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html
-
-This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
-copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
-called COPYING). 
-
-
-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 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 desktop clients
-   with their Unix servers.
-
-2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
-   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.
-
-
-WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
-==================
-
-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
-
-- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
-
-- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative
-  functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
-
-For a much better overview have a look at the web site at
-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
-Linux 2.0 and later.
-
-- 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.
-
-
-
-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 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 Subversion tree - see
-http://samba.org/samba/subversion.html.
-
-You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pre-paid pizza
-vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
-welcome, in fact there is a special field in the survey for people who
-have paid up their pizza :-)
-
-If you like a particular feature then look through the Subversion change-log
-(on the web at http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi) and see
-who added it, then send them an email.
-
-Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
-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 :-)
-
-
-MORE INFO
-=========
-
-DOCUMENTATION
--------------
-
-There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
-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/.
-
-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/listinfo/samba-docs/
-
-
-MAILING LIST
-------------
-
-Please do NOT send subscription/unsubscription requests to the lists!
-
-There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba.  For details go to
-<http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail to <samba-subscribe@lists.samba.org>
-
-There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
-announced.  To subscribe go to <http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail
-to <samba-announce-subscribe@lists.samba.org>.  All announcements also
-go to the samba list, so you only need to be on one.
-
-For details of other Samba mailing lists and for access to archives, see
-<http://lists.samba.org/>
-
-
-MAILING LIST ETIQUETTE
-----------------------
-
-A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list.
-
-1. Make your subject short and descriptive. Avoid the words "help" or
-   "Samba" in the subject. The readers of this list already know that
-   a) you need help, and b) you are writing about samba (of course,
-   you may need to distinguish between Samba PDC and other file
-   sharing software). Avoid phrases such as "what is" and "how do
-   i". Some good subject lines might look like "Slow response with
-   Excel files" or "Migrating from Samba PDC to NT PDC".
-
-2. If you include the original message in your reply, trim it so that
-   only the relevant lines, enough to establish context, are
-   included. Chances are (since this is a mailing list) we've already
-   read the original message.
-
-3. Trim irrelevant headers from the original message in your
-   reply. All we need to see is a) From, b) Date, and c) Subject. We
-   don't even really need the Subject, if you haven't changed
-   it. Better yet is to just preface the original message with "On
-   [date] [someone] wrote:".
-
-4. Please don't reply to or argue about spam, spam filters or viruses
-   on any Samba lists. We do have a spam filtering system that is
-   working quite well thank you very much but occasionally unwanted
-   messages slip through. Deal with it.
-
-5. Never say "Me too." It doesn't help anyone solve the
-   problem. Instead, if you ARE having the same problem, give more
-   information. Have you seen something that the other writer hasn't
-   mentioned, which may be helpful?
-
-6. If you ask about a problem, then come up with the solution on your
-   own or through another source, by all means post it. Someone else
-   may have the same problem and is waiting for an answer, but never
-   hears of it.
-
-7. Give as much *relevant* information as possible such as Samba
-   release number, OS, kernel version, etc...
-
-8. RTFM. Google. groups.google.com.
-
-
-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.
-
-
-WEB SITE
---------
-
-A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
-
-http://samba.org/samba/
-
-As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable 
-archives of the mailing list and a user survey that shows who else is using
-this package. Have you registered with the survey yet? :-)
-
-
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