FAQ Update

Tidied up some entries with incorrect casing
Added NT SP3 entry
Updated list of ported systems
Updated More Info entry with more web site details and list of all doco files
Moved mailing list subscriptions to separate entry
Removed reference to 'samba team mailing list' just in case people guessed
Updated nmbd -C entry, indicating obsolete.
General cleanup of document with indented lists.
Added url links where needed. Web docs will not show urls but will link,
text files will show file names AND urls
Fixed missing info where '\\' was being interpreted as '\' (used [\\])

If I get a warning before 1.9.17 is released, I'll clean up blank lines
from the text faq.  Don't want to do them now as I may modify the sgml again.

For those who don't know, we now maintain the FAQ as an sgml document,
and convert/create html and txt FAQs from that. We use LinuxDoc which is
now called SGMLtools.

Paul.
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@@ -13,17 +13,16 @@
 <A NAME="client_questions"></A> 
 </P>
 
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Are any Macintosh clients for Samba</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Are there any Macintosh clients for Samba?</A></H2>
 
 <P> 
 <A NAME="mac_clients"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>lkcl - update 09mar97 - the answer is "Yes!".  Thursby now have a
-CIFS Client / Server - see 
-<A HREF="http://www.thursby.com/">http://www.thursby.com/</A>.  They test it against
-Windows 95, Windows NT and samba for compatibility issues.  At
-present, DAVE is at version 1.0.0.  DAVE version 1.0.1 is in beta,
-and will be released in April 97 (the speed of finder copies has
+
+Yes! Thursby now have a CIFS Client / Server called DAVE - see 
+<A HREF="http://www.thursby.com/">http://www.thursby.com/</A>.
+They test it against Windows 95, Windows NT and samba for compatibility issues.
+At the time of writing, DAVE was at version 1.0.1. The 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 update is available 
+as a free download from the Thursby web site (the speed of finder copies has
 been greatly enhanced, and there are bug-fixes included).</P>
 <P>Alternatives - There are two free implementations of AppleTalk for
 several kinds of UNIX machnes, and several more commercial ones.
@@ -42,8 +41,8 @@ see
 
 <P> 
 <A NAME="sess_req_fail"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>The following answer is provided by John E. Miller:</P>
+
+The following answer is provided by John E. Miller:</P>
 <P>I'll assume that you're able to ping back and forth between the
 machines by IP address and name, and that you're using some security
 model where you're confident that you've got user IDs and passwords
@@ -72,9 +71,8 @@ it.</P>
 
 <P>
 <A NAME="synchronise_clock"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>To syncronize your PC's clock with your Samba server:</P>
-<P>
+
+To syncronize your PC's clock with your Samba server:
 <UL>
 <LI> Copy timesync.pif to your windows directory</LI>
 <LI> timesync.pif can be found at:
@@ -82,11 +80,11 @@ it.</P>
 <LI> Add timesync.pif to your 'Start Up' group/folder</LI>
 <LI> Open the properties dialog box for the program/icon</LI>
 <LI> Make sure the 'Run Minimized' option is set in program 'Properties'</LI>
-<LI> Change the command line section that reads \\sambahost to reflect the name of your server.</LI>
+<LI> Change the command line section that reads <F>\\sambahost</F> to reflect the name of your server.</LI>
 <LI> Close the properties dialog box by choosing 'OK'</LI>
 </UL>
-</P>
-<P>Each time you start your computer (or login for Win95) your PC will
+
+Each time you start your computer (or login for Win95) your PC will
 synchronize it's clock with your Samba server.</P>
 <P>Alternativley, if you clients support Domain Logons, you can setup Domain Logons with Samba
 - see: 
@@ -123,7 +121,8 @@ over this connection. This is unfortunate, but not fatal.</P>
 <P>It means that if you run your Samba server in share level security
 (the default) then things will definately break as described
 above. The share level SMB security model has no provision for
-multiple user IDs on the one SMB connection. See security_level.txt in
+multiple user IDs on the one SMB connection. See 
+<A HREF="ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/docs/security_level.txt">security_level.txt</A> in
 the docs for more info on share/user/server level security.</P>
 <P>If you run in user or server level security then you have a chance,
 but only if you have a recent version of Samba (at least 1.9.15p6). In
@@ -134,15 +133,15 @@ it can't if your OS has a trapdoor uid system. You'll know this
 because Samba will note it in your logs.</P>
 <P>Also note that you should not use the magic "homes" share name with
 products like these, as otherwise all users will end up with the same
-home directory. Use \\server\username instead.</P>
+home directory. Use <F>\\server\username</F> instead.</P>
 
 
 <H2><A NAME="ss3.5">3.5 Problem with printers under NT</A></H2>
 
 <P> 
 <A NAME="nt_printers"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>This info from Stefan Hergeth
+
+This info from Stefan Hergeth
 hergeth@f7axp1.informatik.fh-muenchen.de may be useful:</P>
 <P>A network-printer (with ethernetcard) is connected to the NT-Clients
 via our UNIX-Fileserver (SAMBA-Server), like the configuration told by
@@ -171,8 +170,8 @@ printer properties in the Print-Manager-Menu of NT, but i didn't try it yet.</LI
 
 <P>
 <A NAME="dst_bugs"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.</P>
+
+This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.</P>
 <P>Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.</P>
 <P>Internally, Samba maintains time in traditional Unix format,
 namely, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Universal Time
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ TZ='PST8PDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' for US Pacific time.
 Posix TZ strings can take the following form (with optional
 items in brackets):
 <PRE>
-                        StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
+        StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
 </PRE>
 
 where:
@@ -255,10 +254,10 @@ and then reconnecting to it; or upgrade your Samba server to
 
 <P>
 <A NAME="printer_driver_name"></A> 
-</P>
-<P>Question:
+
+Question:
 On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
-Enter "\\ptdi270\ps1" in the box of printer. I got the
+Enter <F>"\\ptdi270\ps1"</F> in the box of printer. I got the
 following error message:
 <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
 <PRE>
@@ -271,14 +270,14 @@ following error message:
 Answer:</P>
 <P>In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer
 driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For
-example, I have:
+example:
 <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
 <PRE>
      printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
 </PRE>
 </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
 
-and NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
+with this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
 exactly right.</P>
 <P>To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in
 your client where you select which printer driver to install. The
@@ -292,11 +291,29 @@ in that dialog box.</P>
 </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
 
 this is effectively what older versions of Samba did, so if that
-worked for you then give it a go. If this does work then let me know
-and I'll make it the default. Currently the default is a 0 length
+worked for you then give it a go. If this does work then let us know via 
+<A HREF="mailto:samba-bugs@anu.edu.au">samba-bugs@anu.edu.au</A>,
+and we'll make it the default. Currently the default is a 0 length
 string.</P>
 
 
+<H2><A NAME="ss3.8">3.8 I've applied NT 4.0 SP3, and now I can't access Samba shares, Why?</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+<A NAME="NT_SP3_FIX"></A> 
+
+As of SP3, Microsoft has decided that they will no longer default to 
+passing clear text passwords over the network.  To enable access to 
+Samba shares from NT 4.0 SP3, you must do <B>ONE</B> of two things:
+<OL>
+<LI> Set the Samba configuration option 'security = user' and implement all of the stuff detailed in 
+<A HREF="ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.txt">ENCRYPTION.txt</A>.</LI>
+<LI> Follow Microsoft's directions for setting your NT box to allow plain text passwords. see 
+<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm">Knowledge Base Article Q166730</A></LI>
+</OL>
+</P>
+
+
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