From 2fb5c7c580a3fff3c7d477b65a1c4852af86433b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:16:07 +0000 Subject: merge from HEAD (This used to be commit c0ca286e36d49deba6c73690114b0d867cbfd63e) --- docs/manpages/samba.7 | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/manpages/samba.7') diff --git a/docs/manpages/samba.7 b/docs/manpages/samba.7 index 82e7409627..c898b8ce73 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/samba.7 +++ b/docs/manpages/samba.7 @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ -.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec -.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at: -.\" +.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man +.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: +.\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . -.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/ . 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 +manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit +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/ 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 . .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/ +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/ ) 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 -- cgit