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diff --git a/swat/help/welcome.html b/swat/help/welcome.html index 4f0d8608ce..1bd07946f2 100644 --- a/swat/help/welcome.html +++ b/swat/help/welcome.html @@ -1,6 +1,64 @@ Welcome to SWAT!<p> -need to edit help/welcome.html to fill out this welcome page<p> +This is a online demonstration of the current version of the Samba Web +Administration Tool. This tool is still being written so you'll find +it looks very rough at this stage.<p> + +Normally this opening page would contain the (as yet unwritten) welcome +blurb for SWAT, giving basic instructions on how to use it. I've put +this bit of waffle in its place for the moment. <p> + +Also note that SWAT normally demands authentication before showing you +this page, otherwise anyone could modify your smb.conf! I've disabled +that for this demo.<p> + +<H2>Features</H2> + +Here are some of the features we want to eventually incorporate.<p> + +<ul> +<li> start/stop server +<li> password changing +<li> manage smbpasswd (add/delete users etc) +<li> be able to run the disgnosis steps from DIAGNOSIS.txt +<li> status monitoring (smbstatus style) +<li> be able to kill off individual connections +<li> wizard style config building +</ul> + +There are also some obvious flaws with what has already been done: + +<ul> +<li> help is ghastly +<li> ordering of parameters needs to be looked at +<li> some parameters which are share parameters need to be available at + the global level (especially "hosts allow" and friends) +<li> images are just doodles +</ul> + +On the positive side, here are some good features of SWAT: + +<ul> +<li> built in mini web server so you don't need a web server installed to +manage a Samba server, you just need a browser +<li> links to loadparm.c so it automatically makes available new +parameters as they are added to Samba. +<li> it's quite small (around 500 lines of code currently) +<li> layout and dialog building is done automatically based on the type +fields in loadparm.c +</ul> + +<A HREF="mailto:mtippett@linuxsa.org.au">Matthew Tippett</A> is the +main one doing SWAT work besides myself. He is especially looking at +the layout and GUI design of the system which is something I am +terrible with :-)<p> + +-- <p> +<A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/~tridge">Andrew Tridgell</A> + + + + |