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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/PROJECTS b/docs/textdocs/PROJECTS index d3b2b741e4..5fb75aa98e 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/PROJECTS +++ b/docs/textdocs/PROJECTS @@ -21,28 +21,32 @@ Documentation and FAQ Docs and FAQ files for the Samba suite of software. -Contact Karl.Auer@anu.edu.au +Contact samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au with the diffs. These are urgently +required. The man pages were last guaranteed up to date as of version +1.7.07, and although many changes have been made since then there is still +a lot of work to be done. -Mark Preston is now working on a set of formatted docs for Samba. -Contact mpreston@sghms.ac.uk +The FAQ is being added to on an ad hoc basis, see the web pages for info. -Docs are currently up to date with version, 1.7.07. FAQ being added to -as questions arise. +Mark Preston was working on a set of formatted docs for Samba. Is this +still happening? Contact mpreston@sghms.ac.uk -Status last updated 27th September 1994 +Status last updated 2nd October 1996 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Netbeui support -This aims to produce patches so that Samba can be used with clients +This aimed to produce patches so that Samba can be used with clients that do not have TCP/IP. It will try to remain as portable as possible. - -Contact Brian.Onn@Canada.Sun.COM (Brian Onn) - -The project is just startup up. - -Status last updated 4th October 1994 +Contact Brian.Onn@Canada.Sun.COM (Brian Onn) Unfortunately it died, and +although a lot of people have expressed interest nobody has come forward +to do it. The Novell port (see Samba web pages) includes NetBEUI +functionality in a proprietrary library which should still be helpful as +we have the interfaces. Alan Cox (a.cox@li.org) has the information +required to write the state machine if someone is going to do the work. + +Status last updated 2nd October 1996 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== @@ -52,10 +56,11 @@ A mountable smb filesystem for Linux using the userfs userspace filesystem Contact lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de (Volker Lendecke) -Currently this is at version 0.2. It works but is really only for -people with some knowledge and experience of Linux kernel hacking. +This works really well, and is measurably more efficient than commercial +client software. It is now part of the Linux kernel. Long filename support +is in alpha. -Status last updated 23rd August 1994 +Status last updated 2nd October 1996 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== |