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<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>The documentation (and in particular the man pages) given on this web page
are taken from the latest development version of Samba. If you are using an
earlier version of Samba then you may find some differences.</p>
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- <td>
- <h3>Man Pages</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/samba.7.html">samba(7)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/findsmb.1.html">findsmb(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/lmhosts.5.html">lmhosts(5)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/log2pcap.1.html">log2pcap(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html">mount.cifs(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/net.8.html">net(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/nmbd.8.html">nmbd(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/nmblookup.1.html">nmblookup(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/ntlm_auth.1.html">ntlm_auth(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/pdbedit.8.html">pdbedit(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/profiles.1.html">profiles(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/rpcclient.1.html">rpcclient(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbcacls.1.html">smbcacls(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html">smbclient(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbcontrol.1.html">smbcontrol(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbcquotas.1.html">smbcquotas(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbd.8.html">smbd(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbmnt.8.html">smbmnt(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbmount.8.html">smbmount(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbpasswd.5.html">smbpasswd(5)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbpasswd.8.html">smbpasswd(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbsh.1.html">smbsh(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbspool.8.html">smbspool(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbstatus.1.html">smbstatus(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbtar.1.html">smbtar(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbtree.1.html">smbtree(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/smbumount.8.html">smbumount(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/swat.8.html">swat(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/tdbbackup.8.html">tdbbackup(8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/testparm.1.html">testparm(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/vfstest.1.html">vfstest(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/wbinfo.1.html">wbinfo(1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="man/manpages-3/winbindd.8.html">winbindd(8)</a></li>
- </ul>
- </td>
- <td>
- <h3>Other Documentation</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html">Using Samba, 2ed, O'Reilly
+<h3>Documentation</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="man/manpages-3/">Samba man pages</a>. You can also download the
+ <a href="http://www.samba.org/~samba-bugs/docs/samba-docs-latest.tar.bz2">tarball
+ of the daily docs build</a> which includes the HTML and PDF versions of both
+ the Samba3-HOWTO and Samba3-ByExample.</li>
+ <li><a href="/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html">Using Samba, 2ed, O'Reilly
& Associates</a> (Feb. 2003). (Jan 2007: The 3rd edition
has been released and will be available online soon).</li>
- <li><a href="http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html">The Unofficial
+ <li><a href="http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html">The Unofficial
Samba HOWTO, by David Lechnyr</a></li>
- <li>PDF version of the
+ <li>PDF version of the
<a href="/samba/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf">Troubleshooting Techniques</a>
chapter from the second edition of Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
(Dec. 2001)</li>
- <li><a href="/samba/ftp/slides/">Slide presentations</a> by Samba Team
+ <li><a href="/samba/ftp/slides/">Slide presentations</a> by Samba Team
members</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html">Introduction to Samba 3.0</a> by Motonobu Takahashi (written in Japanese).</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-05/smb_01.html">Understanding
- the Network Neighborhood</a>, by team member Chris Hertel. This
- article appeared in the May 2001 issue of <a
- href="http://www.linux-mag.com/">Linux Magazine</a>.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">Implementing CIFS</a>; an
- on-line book describing the workings and implementation
- of the CIFS protocol suite.</li>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/customers/samba/">Samba 2.0.x
- Troubleshooting guide</a> from
- <a href="mailto:Paul_Green@alum.mit.edu">Paul Green</a></li>
- <li>How to use <a href="swat_ssl.html">SWAT with SSL security (updated for OpenSSL)</a></li>
- <li><a href="/samba/docs/10years.html">Ten Years of Samba</a></li>
- <li><a href="GPL.html">Samba Licensing (GNU GPL)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html">Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <h4>Older (but hopefully still valid) misc docs</h4>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="SambaIntro.html">An Introduction to Samba</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html">What is
+ <li><a href="http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/samba3/samba3a.html">Introduction
+ to Samba 3.0</a> by Motonobu Takahashi (written in Japanese).</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-05/smb_01.html">Understanding
+ the Network Neighborhood</a>, by team member Chris Hertel. This
+ article appeared in the May 2001 issue of <a
+ href="http://www.linux-mag.com/">Linux Magazine</a>.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">Implementing CIFS</a>; an
+ on-line book describing the workings and implementation
+ of the CIFS protocol suite.</li>
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/customers/samba/">Samba 2.0.x
+ Troubleshooting guide</a> from
+ <a href="mailto:Paul_Green@alum.mit.edu">Paul Green</a></li>
+ <li>How to use <a href="swat_ssl.html">SWAT with SSL security (updated for OpenSSL)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/samba/docs/10years.html">Ten Years of Samba</a></li>
+ <li><a href="GPL.html">Samba Licensing (GNU GPL)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html">Samba
+ Authenticated Gateway HOWTO</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Older (but hopefully still valid) misc docs</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="SambaIntro.html">An Introduction to Samba</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html">What is
SMB?</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/">What is CIFS?</a></li>
- </ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/">What is CIFS?</a></li>
+</ul>
- <h4>Translations</h4>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://home.gna.org/sambadoc/">Samba HOWTO Collection in
+<h4>Translations</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://home.gna.org/sambadoc/">Samba HOWTO Collection in
French</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://gertranssmb3.berlios.de/">Samba HOWTO Collection in
+ <li><a href="http://gertranssmb3.berlios.de/">Samba HOWTO Collection in
German</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.millin.de/downloads/3-89990-121-5/kapitel17/index.html">Samba 3.0.9 smb.conf man page in German</a></li>
- </ul>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td colspan="2">
- <p>You can also download the
- <a href="http://samba.org/~samba-bugs/docs/samba-docs-latest.tar.bz2">tarball
- of the daily docs build</a> which includes the HTML and PDF versions of both
- the Samba3-HOWTO and Samba3-ByExample.</p>
- </td></tr>
- <tr>
- <td colspan="2">
- <h3>Contributing</h3>
- <p>Contributions are always welcome to Samba documentation. Like everything
- else concerning Samba, these docs are maintained by members of the Samba
- community, and any help is much appreciated. Contributions can be simple
- typo corrections or a write up of new or previously undocumented
- features.</p>
-
- <p>To get the lastest docs sources from Subversion, run:</p>
+ <li><a href="http://www.millin.de/downloads/3-89990-121-5/kapitel17/index.html">Samba
+ 3.0.9 smb.conf man page in German</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Contributing</h3>
+<p>Contributions are always welcome to Samba documentation. Like everything
+ else concerning Samba, these docs are maintained by members of the Samba
+ community, and any help is much appreciated. Contributions can be simple
+ typo corrections or a write up of new or previously undocumented
+ features.</p>
+
+<p>To get the lastest docs sources from Subversion, run:</p>
<pre>
svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba-docs/trunk samba-docs
</pre>
- <p>Documentation "patches" can be reported through
- <a href="https://bugzilla.samba.org">bugzilla</a>. From the bugzilla home
- page, select 'Enter a new bug report,' choose the appropriate Samba
- branch, and finally, on the bug report form, specify 'Docs' in the
- component menu. Don't forget to attach your documentation fixes.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-
+<p>Documentation "patches" can be reported through
+ <a href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/">bugzilla</a>. From the bugzilla home
+ page, select 'Enter a new bug report,' choose the appropriate Samba
+ branch, and finally, on the bug report form, specify 'Docs' in the
+ component menu. Don't forget to attach your documentation fixes
+ against the Docbook XML source files (not the generated man pages).</p>
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