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WHATSNEW.txt: New file - the idea is that it is updated for new releases and acts as a first point for users who want to see if they should upgrade. jallison@whistle.com
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This is version 1.9.17 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix
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and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team,
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who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
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>>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
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>>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
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This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
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copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
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called COPYING).
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WHAT IS SMB?
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============
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This is a big question.
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The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
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PC-related machines share files and printers and other informatiuon
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such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
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support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
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packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
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VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. There is no reason why Apple
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Macs and indeed any Web browser should not be able to speak this
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protocol, and current development (in which the Samba team is heavily
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involved) is aimed at exactly that. Alternatives to SMB include
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Netware, NFS, Appletalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have
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advantages but none are both public specifications and widely
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implemented in desktop machines by default.
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The Common Internet Filesystem is what the new SMB initiative is
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called. For details watch http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs.
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WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
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==================
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Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does.
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- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
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services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
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- a Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which among other things gives
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browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
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- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
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printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems
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- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
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For a much better overview have a look at the web site at
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http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba, and browse the user survey.
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Related packages include:
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- smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
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filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with
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Linux 2.0 and later.
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- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
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networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip.
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- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
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easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
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ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/smblib.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
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=============
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If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
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please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
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(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
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and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
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samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
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You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pizza
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vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
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welcome, in fact there is a special field in the survey for people who
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have paid up their pizza :-)
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If you like a particular feature then look through the change-log and
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see who added it, then send them an email.
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Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
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we get. If noone tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
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something else. However, as you can see from the user survey quite a lot of
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people do seem to like it at the moment :-)
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Andrew Tridgell
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Email: samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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3 Ballow Crescent
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Macgregor, A.C.T.
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2615 Australia
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Samba Team
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Email: samba-team@samba.anu.edu.au
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MORE INFO
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DOCUMENTATION
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There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
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including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
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info. This is also available from the web page.
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FTP SITE
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The main anonymous ftp distribution site for this software is
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samba.anu.edu.au in the directory pub/samba/.
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MAILING LIST
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There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. To subscribe send
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mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with a body of "subscribe samba Your Name"
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To send mail to everyone on the list mail to samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
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There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
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announced. To subscribe send mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with a
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body of "subscribe samba-announce Your Name". All announcements also
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go to the samba list.
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NEWS GROUP
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You might also like to look at the usenet news group
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comp.protocols.smb as it often contains lots of useful info and is
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frequented by lots of Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup
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by people on the Samba mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to
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Samba, it is a forum for discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba
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implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
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WEB SITE
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A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
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http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/
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As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
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archives of the mailing list and a user survey that shows who else is using
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this package. Have you registered with the survey yet? :-)
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It is maintained by Paul Blackman (thanks Paul!). You can contact him
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at ictinus@lake.canberra.edu.au.
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