Good points all. This is the transition phase from blog-fodder to real documentation, so I appreciate the input.
I completely agree about adding smb.conf examples. I also agree about the change of the term 'sissies'. On 5/5/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > This looks good. I can't today, but I'll try tomorrow to find a simple > vi tutorial or reference for this to link to (since this is for > beginners). Otherwise, can I make three suggestions? > > 1) At the beginning, maybe make mention of some of the default config > options you refer to, like the file systems you want to share out, etc. > You don't need to spell them out, but just say "the kinds of options you > can add are:". > 2) Maybe refer to "newbies" at the end instead of "sissies". The latter > is a term that could be pretty offensive to the very people this is > aimed at. > 3) You can maybe mention that using SWAT is a good method for finding > out the basic format of options, etc. in the smb.conf file, allowing one > to begin simply, and then "graduate" to hand-editing the file. This is a > useful function of any good GUI tool for a beginner in the subject matter. > > Thanks for the work you put into this. :-) Great stuff. > Rainer > > Blake wrote: > > > I've made some changes to my initial tutorial. Feedback appreciated: > > > > < > > > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Basic_Samba_%28Windows_Filesharing%29_Configuration > > < > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Basic_Samba_%28Windows_Filesharing%29_Configuration > >> > > > > > > -- > > > > blake/ > > > -- blake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070505/6ce46a48/attachment.html>
