hm. removed the "if failed to map nt name to unix name, fail tcon call"

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is version 1.9.18 of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
+This is version 2.0.0alphaX 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.
 
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ 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 IS SMB?
 ============
 
@@ -25,8 +26,9 @@ 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.
+The Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
+is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
+
 
 WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
 ==============================
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ 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.
 
-- a Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which among other things gives 
+- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst 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
@@ -60,8 +62,11 @@ printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems
 
 - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
 
+- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative
+  functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
+
 For a much better overview have a look at the web site at
-http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba, and browse the user survey.
+http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
 
 Related packages include:
 
@@ -74,7 +79,8 @@ 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.
+ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/smblib.
+
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS
 =============
@@ -83,10 +89,10 @@ 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. We have recently put a new bug tracking
+samba-bugs@samba.org. 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.
+http://samba.org/cvs.html.
 
 You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pizza
 vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
@@ -94,7 +100,7 @@ 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 CVS change-log
-(on the web at http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba) and see
+(on the web at http://samba.org/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
@@ -103,14 +109,15 @@ 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
+Email: samba-bugs@samba.org
 
 3 Ballow Crescent
 Macgregor, A.C.T.
 2615 Australia
 
 Samba Team
-Email: samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+Email: samba-bugs@samba.org
+
 
 MORE INFO
 =========
@@ -129,28 +136,33 @@ 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.
+http://samba.org/listproc/samba-docs.
+
 
 FTP SITE
 --------
 
 Please use a mirror site! The list of mirrors is in docs/MIRRORS.txt.
-The master ftp site is samba.anu.edu.au in the directory pub/samba.
+The master ftp site is samba.org 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"
+mail to listproc@samba.org with a body of "subscribe samba Your Name"
 Please do NOT send this request to the list alias instead.
 
 To send mail to everyone on the list mail to samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
 
 There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
-announced.  To subscribe send mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with a
+announced.  To subscribe send mail to listproc@samba.org with a
 body of "subscribe samba-announce Your Name". All announcements also
 go to the samba list.
 
+For details of other Samba mailing lists and for access to archives, see
+http://samba.org/listproc.
+
 
 NEWS GROUP
 ----------
@@ -168,12 +180,12 @@ WEB SITE
 
 A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
 
-http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/
+http://samba.org/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@samba.anu.edu.au.
+as ictinus@samba.org.