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   9 <H1>Samba 1.9.17 Release Notes</H1>
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  14 <H2>Table of Contents</H2>
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  16 <MENU>
  17 <LI><B><A HREF="#WHATIS">What is Samba?</A></B> </LI>
  18
  19 <LI><B><A HREF="#Support">Support Policy</A> </B></LI>
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  21 <LI><B><A HREF="#Installation">Installation Information</A> </B></LI>
  22
  23 <LI><B><A HREF="legal_notice.html">Silicon
  24 Graphics Legal Notice</A> </B></LI>
  25
  26 <LI><B><A HREF="#AUTHORNOTES">Author's Notice(s)</A> </B></LI>
  27
  28 <LI><B><A HREF="#Documentation">Documentation Information</A> </B></LI>
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  33
  34 <H2><A NAME="WHATIS"></A>What is Samba?</H2>
  35
  36 <P>Samba is an SMB client and server for Unix. It makes it possible for
  37 client machines running Windows 95 and Windows for Workgroups to access
  38 files and/or print services on a Unix system. Samba includes an SMB server
  39 to provide LanManager-style file and print services to PCs, a Netbios (RFC10001/1002)
  40 name server, and an FTP-like client application for accessing PC resources
  41 from Unix. </P>
  42
  43 <P>To make Samba work you'll need to configure your server host to run
  44 <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> whenever you connect to a certain Internet
  45 port from the client machine. <B>Smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> can be started
  46 either as daemons or from inetd.</P>
  47
  48 <P>By default <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> are started as daemons by the
  49 file <I>/etc/init.d/samba</I> in conjunction with the chkconfig variable
  50 samba being set to on. If you set chkconfig samba off then the deamons
  51 will not be automatically started on reboot. In this case you must type
  52 the following at a shell prompt to start samba after a reboot: </P>
  53
  54 <PRE><B>   chkconfig samba on
  55    /etc/init.d/samba start</B>
  56 </PRE>
  57
  58 <P>If you make changes to your configuration files, <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B>
  59 may be restarted by typing the following at a shell prompt: </P>
  60
  61 <PRE><B>   /etc/init.d/samba start</B>
  62 </PRE>
  63
  64 <P><B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> may be killed by typing the following at
  65 a shell prompt: </P>
  66
  67 <PRE><B>   /etc/init.d/samba stop</B>
  68 </PRE>
  69
  70 <P>To have <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> started by inetd you can execute
  71 the shell script <I>/usr/samba/inetd.sh</I> to automatically configure
  72 the various files and start the processes. This shell script first kills
  73 any running <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B> processes. It then removes any
  74 existing entries for &quot;netbios*&quot; from <I>/etc/inetd.conf</I> and
  75 adds the following lines </P>
  76
  77 <PRE><B>    netbios-ssn stream tcp  nowait  root    /usr/samba/bin/smbd smbd
  78     netbios-ns  dgram udp   wait    root    /usr/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd -S</B>
  79 </PRE>
  80
  81 <P>It then removes any existing entries for &quot;netbios*&quot; from <I>/etc/services</I>
  82 and adds the following lines </P>
  83
  84 <PRE><B>    netbios-ns        137/udp                         # SAMBA
  85     netbios-ssn       139/tcp                         # SAMBA</B>
  86 </PRE>
  87
  88 <P><I>Inetd</I> is then restarted by executing:</P>
  89
  90 <PRE><B>   /etc/killall -HUP inetd</B>
  91 </PRE>
  92
  93 <P>If you make changes to your configuration files, <B>smbd</B> and <B>nmbd</B>
  94 may be restarted by typing the following at a shell prompt: </P>
  95
  96 <PRE><B>   /etc/killall smbd nmbd
  97    /etc/killall -HUP inetd</B>
  98 </PRE>
  99
 100 <H3><A NAME="AUTHORNOTES"></A>Author's Notice(s):</H3>
 101
 102 <P>The author of this product is: Andrew Tridgell </P>
 103
 104 <P>Samba is distributed freely under the <A HREF="GNU_COPYING.txt">GNU
 105 public license</A>. </P>
 106
 107 <H3><A NAME="Support"></A>Support:</H3>
 108
 109 <P>The software in this package is considered unsupported by Silicon Graphics.
 110 Neither the authors or Silicon Graphics are compelled to help resolve problems
 111 you may encounter in the installation, setup, or execution of this software.
 112 To be more to the point, if you call us with an issue regarding products
 113 in the Freeware package, we'll have to gracefully terminate the call. The
 114 <A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/">
 115 Samba Web Page</A> has a listing of companies and individuals that offer
 116 commercial support for a fee.
 117 </P>
 118
 119 <H2><A NAME="Installation"></A>Installation Information</H2>
 120
 121 <P>Samba includes these subsystems: </P>
 122
 123 <TABLE>
 124 <TR>
 125 <TD ALIGN=LEFT><B>samba.sw.base</B> (<I>default</I>)</TD>
 126
 127 <TD>Execution environment for Samba.</TD>
 128 </TR>
 129
 130 <TR>
 131 <TD ALIGN=left><B>samba.man.manpages</B>(<I>default</I>)</TD>
 132
 133 <TD>Samba 1.9.17's online manual pages (preformatted).</TD>
 134 </TR>
 135
 136 <TR>
 137 <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>samba.man.doc</B> (<I>default</I>)</TD>
 138
 139 <TD>Samba documentation: hints on installation and configuration, an FAQ
 140 (Frequently Asked Questions), help in diagnosing problems, etc..</TD>
 141 </TR>
 142
 143 <TR>
 144 <TD ALIGN=left><B>samba.man.relnotes</B> (<I>default</I>) </TD>
 145
 146 <TD>Samba online release notes.</TD>
 147 </TR>
 148
 149 <TR>
 150 <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>samba.src.samba</B> </TD>
 151
 152 <TD>The Samba 1.9.17 software distribution from which this product was
 153 built (including the packaging/SGI directory which will allow this distribution
 154 to be rebuilt).</TD>
 155 </TR>
 156 </TABLE>
 157
 158 <H3>Installation Method</H3>
 159
 160 <P>All of the subsystems for Samba can be installed using IRIX. You do
 161 not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the <I>Software Installation Administrator's
 162 Guide</I> for complete installation instructions. </P>
 163
 164 <H3>Prerequisites</H3>
 165
 166 <P>Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this
 167 product. </P>
 168
 169 <H3>Configuration Files</H3>
 170
 171 <P>Because configuration files often contain modifications, inst treats
 172 them specially during the installation process. If they have not been modified,
 173 inst removes the old file and installs the new version during software
 174 updates. For configuration files that have been modified, the new version
 175 is installed and the old version is renamed by adding the suffix .O (for
 176 older) to the name. The no-suffix version contains changes that are required
 177 for compatibility with the rest of the newly installed software, that increase
 178 functionality, or that fix bugs. You should use diff(1) or gdiff(1) to
 179 compare the two versions of the files and transfer information that you
 180 recognize as machine or site-specific from the .O version to the no-suffix
 181 version. </P>
 182
 183 <DL>
 184 <DT><B>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</B> </DT>
 185
 186 <DD>Configuration definitions for the <B>smbd</B> program; the SMB server
 187 process. The default configuration sets up password-based access to home
 188 directories on a machine as well as open access to to all printers and
 189 /tmp. The workgroup is set by default to &quot;workgroup&quot;. It is highly
 190 recommended that administrators review the content of this file when installing
 191 Samba for the first time.</DD>
 192
 193 <DT><B>/usr/samba/printcap</B> </DT>
 194
 195 <DD>A file that specifies the available printers on a system. It is included
 196 as an example; administrators may want to replace it or override the reference
 197 to it in the <B>smb.conf</B> file. The script <B>/usr/samba/mkprintcap.sh</B>
 198 was used by inst to create a printcap file that contains all printers on
 199 your system. You may wish to remove some printers or add a comment to each
 200 printer name to describe its location.</DD>
 201 </DL>
 202
 203 <H2><A NAME="Documentation"></A>Documentation Information</H2>
 204
 205 <P>Preformatted manual pages are installed by default as are the contents
 206 of the <B>docs</B> directory from the Samba distribution; consult <I>samba</I>(7)
 207 for an introduction. </P>
 208
 209 <P>There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. To subscribe send mail
 210 to <A HREF="mailto:listproc@samba.anu.edu.au">listproc@samba.anu.edu.au</A>
 211 with a body of &quot;subscribe samba Your Name&quot; </P>
 212
 213 <P>To send mail to everyone on the list mail to <A HREF="mailto:samba@samba.anu.edu.au">samba@samba.anu.edu.au</A>.
 214 </P>
 215
 216 <P>There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are announced.
 217 To subscribe send mail to <A HREF="mailto:listproc@samba.anu.edu.au">listproc@samba.anu.edu.au</A>
 218 with a body of &quot;subscribe samba-announce Your Name&quot;. All announcements
 219 also go to the samba list. </P>
 220
 221 <P>You might also like to look at the Usenet news group <A HREF="news:comp.protocols.smb">comp.protocols.smb</A>
 222 as it often contains lots of useful info and is frequented by lots of Samba
 223 users. The newsgroup was initially setup by people on the Samba mailing
 224 list. It is not, however, exclusive to Samba, it is a forum for discussing
 225 the SMB protocol (which Samba implements). </P>
 226
 227 <P>A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
 228 <A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/">http://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/</A>.
 229 It is maintained by Paul Blackman (thanks Paul!). You can contact him at
 230 <A HREF="mailto:ictinus@lake.canberra.edu.au">ictinus@lake.canberra.edu.au</A>.
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