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-This is version 2.1.0alphaX 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.
-
->>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
->>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
-
-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?
-============
-
-This is a big question.
-
-The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
-PC-related machines share files and printers and other informatiuon
-such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
-support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
-packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
-VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers
-can speak this protocol as well. Alternatives to SMB include
-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 (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
-is called. For details watch http://samba.org/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. 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.
-
-- 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
-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.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
-
-Related packages include:
-
-- smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
-filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with
-Linux 2.0 and later.
-
-- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
-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.org/pub/samba/smblib.
-
-
-CONTRIBUTIONS
-=============
-
-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.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.org/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 CVS change-log
-(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
-we get. If noone tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
-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.org
-
-3 Ballow Crescent
-Macgregor, A.C.T.
-2615 Australia
-
-Samba Team
-Email: samba-bugs@samba.org
-
-
-MORE INFO
-=========
-
-DOCUMENTATION
--------------
-
-There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
-including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
-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.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.org in the directory pub/samba.
-
-
-MAILING LIST
-------------
-
-There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. To subscribe send
-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.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
-----------
-
-You might also like to look at the usenet news group
-comp.protocols.smb as it often contains lots of useful info and is
-frequented by lots of Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup
-by people on the Samba mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to
-Samba, it is a forum for discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba
-implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
-
-
-WEB SITE
---------
-
-A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
-
-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
-as ictinus@samba.org.
-
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