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This is the release version of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and |
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by Martin Pitt
Import upstream version 3.0.7 |
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server for UNIX and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by |
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the Samba Team, 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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NOTE: Installation instructions may be found in |
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0.5.1
by Adam Conrad
Import upstream version 3.0.21c |
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docs/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/install.html |
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by Martin Pitt
Import upstream version 3.0.7 |
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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/CIFS? |
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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 information |
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such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that |
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support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives), |
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OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux. Add on packages that achieve the same |
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thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds, |
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MVS, and more. Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well |
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(smb://). Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk, |
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Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are |
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both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines |
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by default. |
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The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative |
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is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs. |
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WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB? |
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1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft desktop clients |
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with their Unix servers. |
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2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix |
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servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop |
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clients. |
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3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP, |
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especially when used with PCs. |
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WHAT CAN SAMBA DO? |
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Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt included with this README for |
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a list of features in the latest Samba release. |
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Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. |
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For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides |
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a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
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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 Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement. |
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- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0 |
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or Active Directory domain. |
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- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst 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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- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative |
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functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server. |
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For a much better overview have a look at the web site at |
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http://samba.org/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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0.30.2
by Christian Perrier
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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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- cifsvfs, a more advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount |
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0.30.2
by Christian Perrier
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remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included |
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as standard with Linux 2.5 and later. |
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CONTRIBUTIONS
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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 http://samba.org/samba/devel/ |
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for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or |
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suggestions to the address samba@lists.samba.org. More information |
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on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at http://lists.samba.org/. |
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0.25.4
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You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the git repository - see |
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http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development. |
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by Martin Pitt
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You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pre-paid 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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0.25.4
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If you like a particular feature then look through the git change-log |
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(on the web at http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=summary) and see |
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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 no one 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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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 .html files with hints and useful
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info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
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collection of information under docs/.
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A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
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available on the web page.
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If you would like to help with the documentation, please coodinate
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on the samba@samba.org mailing list. See the next section for details
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on subscribing to samba mailing lists.
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MAILING LIST
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Please do NOT send subscription/unsubscription requests to the lists!
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There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. For details go to
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<http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail to <samba-subscribe@lists.samba.org>
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There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
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announced. To subscribe go to <http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail
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to <samba-announce-subscribe@lists.samba.org>. All announcements also
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go to the samba list, so you only need to be on one.
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For details of other Samba mailing lists and for access to archives, see
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<http://lists.samba.org/>
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MAILING LIST ETIQUETTE
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A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list.
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1. Make your subject short and descriptive. Avoid the words "help" or
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"Samba" in the subject. The readers of this list already know that
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a) you need help, and b) you are writing about samba (of course,
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you may need to distinguish between Samba PDC and other file
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sharing software). Avoid phrases such as "what is" and "how do
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i". Some good subject lines might look like "Slow response with
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Excel files" or "Migrating from Samba PDC to NT PDC".
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2. If you include the original message in your reply, trim it so that
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only the relevant lines, enough to establish context, are
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included. Chances are (since this is a mailing list) we've already |
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read the original message. |
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3. Trim irrelevant headers from the original message in your |
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reply. All we need to see is a) From, b) Date, and c) Subject. We |
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don't even really need the Subject, if you haven't changed |
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it. Better yet is to just preface the original message with "On |
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[date] [someone] wrote:". |
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4. Please don't reply to or argue about spam, spam filters or viruses |
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on any Samba lists. We do have a spam filtering system that is
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working quite well thank you very much but occasionally unwanted
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messages slip through. Deal with it.
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5. Never say "Me too." It doesn't help anyone solve the |
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problem. Instead, if you ARE having the same problem, give more |
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information. Have you seen something that the other writer hasn't |
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mentioned, which may be helpful? |
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6. If you ask about a problem, then come up with the solution on your |
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own or through another source, by all means post it. Someone else |
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may have the same problem and is waiting for an answer, but never |
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hears of it. |
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7. Give as much *relevant* information as possible such as Samba |
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release number, OS, kernel version, etc... |
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8. RTFM. Google. groups.google.com. |
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NEWS GROUP |
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You might also like to look at the usenet news group comp.protocols.smb |
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as it often contains lots of useful info and is frequented by lots of |
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Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup by people on the Samba |
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mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to Samba, it is a forum for |
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discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba implements). The samba list |
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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.org/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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