Dan

[samba.git] / docs / INSTALL.txt

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@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ try something like:
 
        nroff -man smbd.8 | more
 
+Unfortunately, having said this, the man pages are sadly out of date and
+really need more effort to maintain them. Other sources of information 
+are pointed to by the Samba web site, http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba.
+
 STEP 1. Building the binaries
 
 To do this, first edit the file source/Makefile. You will find that
@@ -49,10 +53,11 @@ options.
 
 The simplest useful configuration file would be something like this:
 
-[homes]
-       workgroup = MYGROUP
-       guest ok = no
-       read only = no
+   workgroup = MYGROUP
+
+   [homes]
+      guest ok = no
+      read only = no
 
 which would allow connections by anyone with an account on the server,
 using either their login name or "homes" as the service name. (Note
@@ -143,6 +148,8 @@ You can then run startsmb by hand or execute it from /etc/rc.local
 
 To kill it send a kill signal to the processes nmbd and smbd.
 
+NOTE: If you use the SVR4 style init system then you may like to look
+at the examples/svr4-startup script to make Samba fit into that system.
 
 
 STEP 7. Try listing the shares available on your server
@@ -228,8 +235,9 @@ CHOOSING THE PROTOCOL LEVEL
 The SMB protocol has many dialects. Currently Samba supports 5, called
 CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2 and NT1.
 
-You can choose what protocols to support in the smb.conf file. The
-default is NT1 and that is the best for the vast majority of sites.
+You can choose what maximum protocol to support in the smb.conf
+file. The default is NT1 and that is the best for the vast majority of
+sites.
 
 In older versions of Samba you may have found it necessary to use
 COREPLUS. The limitations that led to this have mostly been fixed. It
@@ -308,7 +316,9 @@ compatability modes called DENY_FCB and DENY_DOS.
 
 You can disable share modes using "share modes = no". This may be
 useful on a heavily loaded server as the share modes code is very
-slow. 
+slow. See also the FAST_SHARE_MODES option in the Makefile for a way
+to do full share modes very fast using shared memory (if your OS
+supports it).
 
 
 MAPPING USERNAMES