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Documentation
The documentation (and in particular the man pages) given on this web page
are taken from the latest development version of Samba. If you are using an
earlier version of Samba then you may find some differences.
Documentation
The
Samba Wiki
is a comprehensive and certainly the most up to date documentation about
Samba
Live Presentations by Samba Team members
on
Presentations
by Samba Team
members
Samba man pages in html
Samba Licensing (GNU GPL)
Older (but hopefully still valid) misc docs
Implementing CIFS
; an
on-line book describing the workings and implementation
of the CIFS protocol suite.
PDF version of the
Troubleshooting Techniques
chapter from the second edition of Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
(Dec. 2001)
Samba
Authenticated Gateway HOWTO
Ten Years of Samba
Introduction
to Samba 3.0
by Motonobu Takahashi (written in Japanese).
Using Samba, 2ed, O'Reilly
& Associates
(Feb. 2003). (Jan 2007: The 3rd edition
has been released).
An Introduction to Samba
What is
SMB?
What is CIFS?
How to use
SWAT with SSL security (updated for OpenSSL)
Contributing
Contributions are always welcome to Samba documentation. Like everything
else concerning Samba, these docs are maintained by members of the Samba
community, and any help is much appreciated. Contributions can be simple
typo corrections or a write up of new or previously undocumented
features.
The documentation is located in the docs-xml directory in each release
branch. Please see the
Samba Wiki
for information about the release branches and a short
introduction into git.
Documentation "patches" can be reported through
bugzilla
. From the bugzilla home
page, select 'Enter a new bug report,' choose the appropriate Samba
branch, and finally, on the bug report form, specify 'Docs' in the
component menu. Don't forget to attach your documentation fixes
against the Docbook XML source files (not the generated man pages).
Samba Books
Find Samba books on the
Samba
Books
page.
Further Online Resources
IETF RFC 1001:
Protocol Standard for a NetBIOS Service on a TCP/UDP Transport:
Concepts and Methods
IETF STD #19, March, 1987
IETF RFC 1002:
Protocol Standard for a NetBIOS Service on a TCP/UDP Transport:
Detailed Specifications
IETF STD #19, March, 1987
Implementing CIFS:
References
Christopher R. Hertel
NetBIOS,
NetBEUI, NBF, SMB, and CIFS networking
Timothy D. Evans
NetBIOS
Specification
Gavin Winston
SNIA
Storage Developer Conference
Storage Network Industry Association
Unicode in the Unix Environment
Roman Czyborra
Donations
Nowadays, the Samba Team
needs a
dollar
instead of pizza ;-)
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By Country
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by
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by
SNIA
Releases
Current stable release
Samba 4.24.1 (gzipped)
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