Discontinued elements are marked as such.
| Document | Audience | Comments (if not obvious) |
|---|---|---|
| Application_Serving.txt | limited | Using Samba as an admin share for MS Office etc. |
| BROWSING-Config.txt | most | How to set up browsing, including cross-subnet browsing. |
| BROWSING.txt | experts | says 'for very advanced users only' |
| BUGS.txt | ? | How to report Samba bugs. |
| newbies | Why Samba does not convert between DOS CRLF and Unix LF, dropped in 2.2 levels so look here instead . | |
| CUPS-PrintingInfo.txt | :-) | Light reading for CUPS users, look for cups.html for more serious enlightenment. |
| DHCP-Server-Configuration.txt | DHCP users | How to set up a DHCP Server for Win clients |
| DIAGNOSIS.txt | you | read this if you have problems |
| DNIX.txt | limited | problems with DNIX unix |
| NT theory | Network Logons and Roving Profiles, dropped for 2.2.x levels. | |
| NT Users | Explains NT Domains, dropped for 2.2.x levels. | |
| Faxing.txt | limited | how to turn a Samba server into a fax server |
| all | An OPLOCKS Discussion, important! Also (and since 2.2.0 only) in my docs | |
| GOTCHAS.txt | none ? | 1 old RedHat bug, one important NT domain problem described |
| HINTS.txt | All | oldie but goodie - some good advice. |
| INSTALL.sambatar | limited | Using smbtar |
| Imprints.txt | ? | Describes a NT/Printing project |
| Macintosh_Clients.txt | limited | - |
| none | my pointers are better, now dropped anyway. | |
| NetBIOS.txt | theory | says why you should avoid NetBEUI and IPX/SPX, WINS doc is here as well. Sort of duplicates BROWSING-CONFIG.txt |
| NT4 | why 'security = domain' accesses need 2 validation attempts, dropped for 2.2 levels. | |
| NTDOMAIN.txt | historians | superceded by DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt and now Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html, in OUTDATED under 2.2.x |
| PRINTER_DRIVER.txt | limited | [PRINTER$] share for Win95 (not WinNT), in OUTDATED under 2.2.x, it's use is depreciated. |
| PROFILES.txt | ? | - |
| Passwords.txt | All | uppercase/lowercase etc |
| Printing.txt | All | debug your printing |
| README.DCEDFS | ? | ? |
| README.NOW | all | Says that the .txt docs are obsolete and how to convert .html docs to .txt |
| README.jis | !! | is in japanese (?) |
| Non-Newbie | How to synchronise *nix and smbpasswd passwords, 2.2 levels, gone | |
| README.sambatar | none | obsolete since 1.9.13 |
| linux | smbmount was not part of Samba, this document is only in older versions. | |
| Recent-FAQs.txt | All | Is relatively current, see also faq and this |
| RoutedNetworks.txt | NT 3.1 | Applies to NT 3.1, Samba 2.x |
| SCO.txt | SCO | - |
| SMBTAR.notes | limited | - |
| Samba-OpenSSL.txt | advanced | How to combine the two, new in 2.2.0. |
| Solaris-Winbind-HOWTO.txt | Hmmm . . . | Introduced 2.2.5, replaced in 2.2.6 |
| Speed.txt | All | (updated 2.2.0) Is Samba too slow for you? See also Samba is slow?. |
| Speed2.txt | All | Samba was too slow for someone else, rather old. |
| experts ? | A Secure Socket Support packet, docs for Samba 2.x. Renamed | |
| commercial | Companies that support Samba commercially, dropped for 2.2 levels | |
| Tracing.txt | experts | How to trace and debug Samba |
| UNIX-SMB.txt | theory | The SMB Protocol from a UNIX point of view, needs updating |
| UNIX_SECURITY.txt | How to stop users accessing other [homes] | |
| Win95.txt | how to disable encryption | |
| WinNT.txt | NT users | various NT problems |
| cifsntdomain.txt | developers | very technical |
| security_level.txt | All | security = share, user, domain or server. Discuss. |
| smbmount.txt | Linux | Introduced in 2.0.7, replaced by the man-page for 2.2.x. |
| announce | what is Samba? | |
| faq | All | Has recently been revamped, look at samba/docs/faq |
| history | version history | |
| - |
| Document | Audience | Comments (if not obvious) |
|---|---|---|
| Current samba-bugs FAQ | All | This document is only available on the Server |
| CVS_ACCESS.html | developers | access to CVS code. |
| DOMAIN_MEMBER.html | NT Users | How to join a Domain, Samba 2.x.x, was previously a .txt. |
| ENCRYPTION.html | All | see also NT4 and Winxx documents |
| Integrating-with-Windows.html | All | New with 2.2 |
| NT_Security.html | NT | How to change UNIX Permissions from within NT - ACL support, previously a .txt. |
| OS2-Client-HOWTO.html | limited | - |
| PAM-Authentication-and-Samba.html | Advanced | 2.2 levels |
| Samba-BDC-HOWTO.html | Guess! | 2.2.x levels |
| Samba-FAQ-Collection.html | All | 2.2.x levels, a major addition to the docs |
| Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html | Everyone! | A major piece of work |
| Samba-LDAP-Howto.html | Large-scale users | New in 2.2.3 (?) |
| Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html | Guess! | 2.2.x levels |
| as above | Early 2.2.x levels | |
| - | This is superceded by Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html. Also 2.2.x levels | |
| UNIX_INSTALL.html | starting up | Subtitle: How to Install and Test Samba - everyone should have read this once. |
| cups.html | how to configure Samba to print using CUPS | |
| msdfs_setup.html | DFS users | This is about MS DFS, look at it to find out what it can do |
| printer_driver2.html | all? | Allow Samba to supply clients with the drivers they need |
| wfw_slip.html | historians | who uses wfw or slip nowadays? |
| winbind.html | professional sites | winbind is there to handle unified logons between the MS and Unix worlds |
As mentioned in the main document, you can expect to find this lot in your
/usr tree somewhere under samba/docs/textdocs and samba/docs/htmldocs. They
are as much a part of the Samba package as the executables and man-pages.