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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2002-10-01 17:16:07 +0000
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@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
-.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec
-.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at:
-.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
+.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "SAMBA" "7" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "SAMBA" "7" "01 October 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
SAMBA \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.sp
+
\fBSamba\fR
+
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
-also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS),
-LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.
+also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a
+more thorough description, see http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/ <URL:http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
+protocol in nmbd.
.TP
\fBsmbd\fR
The \fBsmbd \fR
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ for this daemon is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
.TP
\fBnmbd\fR
The \fBnmbd\fR
-daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
+daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
support. The configuration file for this daemon
is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
.TP
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
\fBtestprns\fR
The \fBtestprns\fR
utility supports testing printer names defined
-in your \fIprintcap>\fR file used
+in your \fIprintcap\fR file used
by Samba.
.TP
\fBsmbstatus\fR
@@ -74,8 +76,13 @@ The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
-manual pages aren't clear enough then please send a patch or
-bug report to samba@samba.org <URL:mailto:samba@samba.org>
+manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
+http://devel.samba.org <URL:http://devel.samba.org/>
+for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.
+.PP
+If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
+http://www.samba.org/ <URL:http://samba.org/> and
+explore the many option available to you.
.SH "AVAILABILITY"
.PP
The Samba software suite is licensed under the
@@ -108,11 +115,10 @@ If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
.PP
-If you have patches to submit or bugs to report
-then you may mail them directly to samba-patches@samba.org.
-Note, however, that due to the enormous popularity of this
-package the Samba Team may take some time to respond to mail. We
-prefer patches in \fBdiff -u\fR format.
+If you have patches to submit, visit
+http://devel.samba.org/ <URL:http://devel.samba.org/>
+for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in
+\fBdiff -u\fR format.
.SH "CONTRIBUTORS"
.PP
Contributors to the project are now too numerous
@@ -125,7 +131,7 @@ Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
.PP
In addition, several commercial organizations now help
fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
-the Samba Web pages at http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html.
+the Samba Web pages at http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
The original Samba software and related utilities
@@ -137,5 +143,5 @@ The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
-release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter