-This is thre release version 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.
+This is the release version of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
+server and Domain Controller 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/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html
+NOTE: Installation instructions may be found
+ for the file/print server and domain member in:
+ docs/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/install.html
+
+ For the AD DC implementation a full HOWTO is provided at:
+ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
- 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 Windows Domain Controller (NT4 and AD) replacement.
- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0
or Active Directory domain.
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.
+- cifsvfs, an 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.
-- 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.
+- smbfs, the previous 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.
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 Subversion tree - see
-http://samba.org/samba/subversion.html.
-
-You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pre-paid 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 :-)
+You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the git repository - see
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development.
-If you like a particular feature then look through the Subversion change-log
-(on the web at http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi) and see
+If you like a particular feature then look through the git change-log
+(on the web at http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=summary) 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 no one 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 :-)
-
+something else.
MORE INFO
=========
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/
+If you would like to help with the documentation, please coodinate
+on the samba@samba.org mailing list. See the next section for details
+on subscribing to samba mailing lists.
MAILING LIST
8. RTFM. Google. groups.google.com.
-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.org/samba/
+http://samba.org/
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? :-)
+this package.
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