From e256acce3bfc22534b5738f8438faf328fda6a8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Metzmacher Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:02:58 +0000 Subject: r518: merge in the SAMBA_2_2 branch from cvs to brnaches/SAMBA_2_2 this is maybe not complete yet, please wait until I create the DAY_ZERRO tag metze --- README | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 789413210a6..fe20f671e11 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,48 +1,47 @@ -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 +This is version 2.2.X 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/install.html + docs/htmldocs/UNIX_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? -================= +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 information +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 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 +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 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. +1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft or IBM style desktop + machines with their Unix or VMS (etc) servers. 2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix - servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop - clients. + or VMS (etc) 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. @@ -51,26 +50,18 @@ WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB? 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." +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." - 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 @@ -82,14 +73,16 @@ 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. -- 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. +- 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.org/pub/samba/smblib. CONTRIBUTIONS @@ -97,12 +90,11 @@ 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 CVS tree - see +(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/textdocs/BUGS.txt for more details) +and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address +samba@lists.samba.org. We have recently put a new bug tracking +system into place which should help the throughput quite a lot. You +can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see http://samba.org/cvs.html. You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pre-paid pizza @@ -115,10 +107,13 @@ 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 no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto +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 :-) +Samba Team +Email: samba@samba.org + MORE INFO ========= @@ -127,16 +122,17 @@ DOCUMENTATION ------------- There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package, -including man pages, and lots of .html files with hints and useful +including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing -collection of information under docs/. +collection of information under docs/faq; by the next release expect +this to be the default starting point. 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/ +http://lists.samba.org/ MAILING LIST @@ -204,12 +200,12 @@ 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. WEB SITE @@ -222,3 +218,4 @@ 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? :-) + -- cgit