1 Copyright (C) 1997-2001 - Samba-Team
3 The Samba package you have just unpacked contains the following:
8 docs (Samba Documentation):
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11 The Samba documentation for the 2.2 release has had all the man pages
12 converted to DocBook v4.1 source format. Because of this the man pages
13 are now available in both traditional man page format (in
14 the doc/manpages directory) and in HTML format (in the
15 docs/htmldocs directory).
17 The text documentation files have been moved into a
18 docs/textdocs directory and are in the (slow) process
19 of being converted to DocBook source format to allow them
20 to be easily converted to HTML.
22 Note in particular two files - docs/textdocs/<your OS>_INSTALL.txt
23 and docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt.
25 There is the potential for there to be many *INSTALL.txt files, one
26 for each OS that Samba supports. However we are moving all this into
27 the new structure. For now, most people will be using
28 htmldocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
30 Please pay close attention to all the files with a .txt extension
31 in the docs/textdocs directory and the htmldocs/* files. Most problems
32 can be solved by reference to the two files mentioned.
34 The FAQ documentation can be accessed starting from Samba-meta-FAQ.html,
35 in the docs/faq directory. This is incomplete, but to quote from the
38 "contains overview information for the Samba suite of programs,
39 a quick-start guide, and pointers to all other Samba documentation.
40 Other FAQs exist for specific client and server issues, and HOWTO
41 documents for more extended topics to do with Samba software."
44 examples (Example configuration files):
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47 Please pay close attention to the reference smb.conf file
48 smb.conf.default that has now been included as the master guide.
50 Do read the smb.conf manual page in considering what settings are
51 appropriate for your site.
53 There are lots of interesting examples of how people have been able
54 to implement Samba for their use. Users may also be interested in
55 the VFS (Virtual File System) modules under this directory.
57 SWAT: The Samba Web Administration Tool
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60 SWAT is a web based tool for configuring and optimising the smb.conf
61 file. To use it, you need to have SWAT enabled in your inetd control
62 file (for more information check the packaging directories for examples
63 of how this can be done). Then you connect to SWAT using your favourite
64 web browser - point it at http://hostname:901, then log on as "root"
65 using the root password. If you log on using a non-root account SWAT
66 will not allow the smb.conf file to be changed.
69 packaging (Only for those wishing to build binary distributions):
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72 Currently support is included for the following Linux Distributions :
74 Caldera, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, and TurboLinux.
76 Packaging support for TuboLinux is under ~samba/packaging/PHT - the
77 previous name of the company was Pacific HiTech, hence the PHT.
79 In addition, packaging support is available for SGI and Solaris systems.
81 SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare have been acquired by Caldera. We expect
82 that Caldera will in future integrate Samba into the above operating
83 systems. UnixWare has been renamed to OpenUnix. Look under the directory
84 ~samba/packaging/Caldera for packaging support for these platforms.
86 We hope that other Unix OS vendors will contribute their binary
87 distribution packaging control files - and we hope to make their binary
88 packages available on the master ftp site under:
90 ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/"OS_Vendor"
93 source (The official Samba source files - expect more of these!):
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96 To build your own binary files you will need a suitable ansi C
99 For Samba 2.2 the GNU autoconf system has been adopted. In
100 order to build a default Samba for your platform cd into
101 the source/ directory and then type :
109 To install the binaries built by the above type :
113 then set up your configuration files.
115 NOTE: OS Vendors who provide Samba binary packages will generally
116 integrate all Samba files into their preferred directory locations.
117 These may differ from the default location ALWAYS used by the Samba
118 sources. Please be careful when upgrading a vendor provided binary
119 distribution from files you have built yourself.