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author | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2003-07-16 05:34:56 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2003-07-16 05:34:56 +0000 |
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trying to get HEAD building again. If you want the code
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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.xml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.xml index 38e40ae239..bc9fa9ce1b 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.xml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.xml @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ <title>Introduction to Samba</title> -<para><emphasis> +<para><quote> "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- Anonymous -</emphasis></para> +</quote></para> <para> Samba is a file and print server for Windows-based clients using TCP/IP as the underlying @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ thinking? </itemizedlist> <para>If you plan on getting help, make sure to subscribe to the Samba Mailing List (available at -http://www.samba.org). Optionally, you could just search mailing.unix.samba at http://groups.google.com +<ulink url="http://www.samba.org/">http://www.samba.org</ulink>). </para> </sect1> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS VFS. These are both available in the Linux ker <listitem><para> CIFS VFS (Common Internet File System Virtual File System) is the successor to SMBFS, and is being actively developed for the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module - is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical + is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. @@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients. </para> <para> -There are other Open Source CIFS client implementations, such as the jCIFS project -(jcifs.samba.org) which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java. +There are other Open Source CIFS client implementations, such as the +<ulink url="http://jcifs.samba.org/">jCIFS project</ulink> +which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java. </para> @@ -226,9 +227,9 @@ up a single file. In general, SMB sessions are established in the following orde </itemizedlist> <para> -A good way to examine this process in depth is to try out SecurityFriday's SWB program -at http://www.securityfriday.com/ToolDownload/SWB/swb_doc.html. It allows you to -walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step. +A good way to examine this process in depth is to try out +<ulink url="http://www.securityfriday.com/ToolDownload/SWB/swb_doc.html">SecurityFriday's SWB program</ulink>. +It allows you to walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step. </para> </sect1> @@ -236,8 +237,8 @@ walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step. <sect1> <title>Epilogue</title> -<para><emphasis> -"What's fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any taste when they +<para><quote> +What's fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any taste when they did it. Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft and who have had years of experience, just don't know how it works internally. @@ -246,16 +247,16 @@ mess that fixing one bug might just break a hundred programs that depend on that bug. And Microsoft isn't interested in anyone fixing bugs -- they're interested in making money. They don't have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an operating system. -</emphasis></para> +</quote></para> -<para><emphasis> +<para><quote> People inside Microsoft know it's a bad operating system and they still continue obviously working on it because they want to get the next version out because they want to have all these new features to sell more copies of the system. -</emphasis></para> +</quote></para> -<para><emphasis> +<para><quote> The problem with that is that over time, when you have this kind of approach, and because nobody understands it, because nobody REALLY fixes bugs (other than when they're really obvious), the end result is really messy. You can't trust @@ -265,11 +266,11 @@ fine and then once in a blue moon for some completely unknown reason, it's dead, and nobody knows why. Not Microsoft, not the experienced user and certainly not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking "What did I do wrong?" when they didn't do anything wrong at all. -</emphasis></para> +</quote></para> -<para><emphasis> +<para><quote> That's what's really irritating to me." -</emphasis></para> +</quote></para> <para>-- <ulink url="http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/boot.txt">Linus Torvalds, from an interview with BOOT Magazine, Sept 1998</ulink> @@ -280,15 +281,10 @@ That's what's really irritating to me." <sect1> <title>Miscellaneous</title> -<para> -This chapter was lovingly handcrafted on a Dell Latitude C400 laptop running Slackware Linux 9.0, -in case anyone asks. -</para> - -<!-- This really needs to go... --> +<!--FIXME: This really needs to go... --> <para> -This chapter is Copyright © 2003 David Lechnyr (david at lechnyr dot com). +This chapter is Copyright 2003 David Lechnyr (david at lechnyr dot com). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt. |