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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 9bc9953c265..00000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,153 +0,0 @@ -This is version 1.9.17 of Samba, the free SMB 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. - -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? -============ - -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 informatiuon -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. There is no reason why Apple -Macs and indeed any Web browser should not be able to speak this -protocol, and current development (in which the Samba team is heavily -involved) is aimed at exactly that. 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 is what the new SMB initiative is -called. For details watch http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs. - -WHAT CAN SAMBA DO? -================== - -Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. - -- 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 Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which among 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 - -For a much better overview have a look at the web site at -http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/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. - -- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB -networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip. - -- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it -easy to smb-ise any particular application. See -ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/smblib. - -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-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. - -You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or 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 change-log 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 noone 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 :-) - -Andrew Tridgell -Email: samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au - -3 Ballow Crescent -Macgregor, A.C.T. -2615 Australia - -Samba Team -Email: samba-team@samba.anu.edu.au - -MORE INFO -========= - -DOCUMENTATION -------------- - -There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package, -including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful -info. This is also available from the web page. - -FTP SITE --------- - -The main anonymous ftp distribution site for this software is -samba.anu.edu.au in the directory pub/samba/. - -MAILING LIST ------------- - -There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. To subscribe send -mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with a body of "subscribe samba Your Name" - -To send mail to everyone on the list mail to samba@listproc.anu.edu.au - -There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are -announced. To subscribe send mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with a -body of "subscribe samba-announce Your Name". All announcements also -go to the samba 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. - - -WEB SITE --------- - -A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to: - -http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/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? :-) - -It is maintained by Paul Blackman (thanks Paul!). You can contact him -at ictinus@lake.canberra.edu.au. - - - |