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accidentally updated the Makefile updated the name database structure (again!). this time, there is one name database per local interface. there is also a pseudo-interface on ip 255.255.255.255. its purpose is to store WINS name entries. all the local interface name databases store SELF names only. the WINS name database stores non-special browser names. added wins.dat file: records WINS entries in ascii format. this is reloaded when nmbd restarts. added repeating code for response packets. timer is in seconds only at the moment. updated the response queue code to deal with samba registering with a WINS server a bit better (added more cases when a response isn't received). tidied up the response packet processing code and expire_response_queue() code. added cross references between response received and await-response expired code. added over-zealous code that checks all machines that register with samba as a WINS server (every 10 minutes i think): to see whether they are still alive or not (see rfc1001.txt) bug reported by terry@ren.pc.athabascau.ca: DNSFAILed names _stay_ as DNSFAIL, even though the machine may come back up and REGISTER. removed update_from_reg() function. it's not necessary, and it does too much. added code that announces on each local interface samba's ttl as zero and servertype as zero when nmbd is kill -TERMed first attempt at putting the first functionality of samba browsing back in (remote subnets should have samba appear in a workgroup specified through the lmhosts file) lots of other miscellaneous tidying up / chopping about. |
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This is version 1.9 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix. >>>> 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 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 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. You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pizza vouchers directly to me. The pizza vouchers would be especially welcome :-) 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 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. 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 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. 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). 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.