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This is version 1.9 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix.
This is version 1.9 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 and principal maintainer, Andrew Tridgell.
>>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
>>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
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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?
==================
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Linux 2.0 and later.
- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip
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. I accept patches (preferably in
"diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details) and am always glad to
receive feedback or suggestions.
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 me. The pizza vouchers would be especially
welcome :-)
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.
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Macgregor, A.C.T.
2615 Australia
Samba Team
Email: samba-team@samba.anu.edu.au
MORE INFO
=========
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There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
info.
info. This is also available from the web page.
FTP SITE
--------
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To send mail to everyone on the list mail to samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
There is also an announcement mailing list where I announce new
versions. 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.
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
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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).
implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
WEB SITE