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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/textdocs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/Printing.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt | 2 |
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt b/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt index ad12d4c722..2ca41e5624 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt @@ -7,10 +7,14 @@ Summary: This describes how to configure Samba for improved browsing. OVERVIEW: ========= + SMB networking provides a mechanism by which clients can access a list -of machines that are available within the network. This list is called -the browse list and is heavily used by all SMB clients. Configuration -of SMB browsing has been problematic for some Samba users, hence this +of machines in a network, a so-called "browse list". This list +contains machines that are ready to offer file and/or print services +to other machines within the network. Thus it does not include +machines which aren't currently able to do server tasks. The browse +list is heavily used by all SMB clients. Configuration of SMB +browsing has been problematic for some Samba users, hence this document. Browsing will NOT work if name resolution from NetBIOS names to IP @@ -59,9 +63,10 @@ browsing on another subnet. It is recommended that this option is only used for 'unusual' purposes: announcements over the internet, for example. See "remote announce" in the smb.conf man page. -If something doesn't work then hopefully the log.nmb file will -help you track down the problem. Try a debug level of 2 or 3 for -finding problems. +If something doesn't work then hopefully the log.nmb file will help +you track down the problem. Try a debug level of 2 or 3 for finding +problems. Also note that the current browse list usually gets stored +in text form in a file called browse.dat. Note that if it doesn't work for you, then you should still be able to type the server name as \\SERVER in filemanager then hit enter and diff --git a/docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt b/docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt index 75114557fe..877640108c 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ windows. Just drag your file onto the icon and it converts the file. Get it from ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/contributed/fixcrlf.zip +The utilities unix2dos and dos2unix(in the mtools package) should do +the job under unix. + ---------------------- HINT: Use the "username map" option diff --git a/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt b/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt index b47120eaba..2c50e5f4fe 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Revised by: Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.org> Date: August 11, 2000 Status: Current -Subject: Dubugging Printing Problems +Subject: Debugging Printing Problems ============================================================================= This is a short description of how to debug printing problems with diff --git a/docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt b/docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt index fd65045abd..6cc1d69258 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Once you are attached you then can do whatever it is on the client that is causing problems and you will capture all the system calls that smbd makes. -So how do you interpret the results? Generally I search thorugh the +So how do you interpret the results? Generally I search through the output for strings that I know will appear when the problem happens. For example, if I am having touble with permissions on a file I would search for that files name in the strace output and look at diff --git a/docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt b/docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt index d6a0a01acc..38705f018a 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories such that the cd and ls would be denied. -Samba tries very had not to second guess the UNIX administrators +Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set the policies and permissions he or she desires. |