Finally got around to updating the man pages for nmbd and smbd to reflect

[samba.git] / README

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-This is version 1.9.17 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, Andrew Tridgell.
+This is version 1.9.18 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.
@@ -28,10 +28,26 @@ 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.
 
+WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
+==============================
+
+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
+   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.
+
+
 WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
 ==================
 
-Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. 
+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.
@@ -67,15 +83,19 @@ 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 docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
 and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
+samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. 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.anu.edu.au/cvs.html.
 
 You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or 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 :-)
 
-If you like a particular feature then look through the change-log and
-see who added it, then send them an email.
+If you like a particular feature then look through the CVS change-log
+(on the web at http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba) 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
@@ -104,6 +124,13 @@ info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
 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://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/samba-docs.
+
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