On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:33:14PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote: > > I'm currently testing out samba-3.0.0 - but I need a lot of time > > to find out, how some features have to be configured. > > > > To find out if your current samba-installation doesn't work because > > of a configuration, a missing file or a bug in samba consumes sometimes > > a lot of time. > > Yes. > > > I think it would be useful, if the samba-distribution would have > > a certain directory for working configuration-files in the > > examples directory. > > Yes. > > > In this directory there could be some subdirectories, i.e. called > > "pdc-ldap", "pdc", "simple-server", ... > > Yes. > > > The file should contain typical setup-scenarios - i think that there are > > only few basic-types for installaing a samba-server. > > Yes. > > > To find out this setup-types as a unexperienced samba-user > > needs many hours. I think it's better to have a working setup > > for doing experiments - than starting from scratch. > > Yes. And that is why I devoted a lot of effort to putting this in the > chapter "Fast Start: Cure for Impatience" that will be in the book, > "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" that will be published by > Prentice Hall - should be available October 24th. About 720 pages. > > PS: 4 Months after the book is on the shelf the chapters that are not yet > in CVS will be committed to CVS. This means that this chapter will not be > in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf until 4 months after the book is > released.
So - is this a OK ? :-)) I�m currently doing a lot of testing - maybe we can build some sample-configurations, which will cover some very usual setups ? So - what are widespread setups ? Maybe: * A simple Samba-PDC (smbpasswd-backend, encrypted passwords, a share with group-access, cups-printing, server-stored printer-drivers, logon-scripts, server-profiles) * A Samba PDC/BDC Setup (ldap-backend, acl-support, encrypted passwords, a share with group-access, cups-printing, server-stored printer-drivers, logon-scripts, server-profiles) * ADS-Member * Single-Server ... Some configurations are very hard to setup for many sysadmins (i.e. the ldap-thing :-)) - maybe we can make a directory for each config-example which contains: * a sample config * a description how to configure and setup non-samba things (i.e. openldap, compile and use a xfs-enabled-kernel) * useful scripts * example ldif.files I think this is useful for testing (maybe we can put this in the testcases-dir ?), and helps sysadmins to use the blending-edge features of Samba. I think that the utilization of many functions will increase - if there is a way shown how to configure such big setups :-)) I would be glad to help you with testing testups, makeing comments, writing, etc. :-) Best regards Marc Schoechlin -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH | fon +49 711 90074-413 Marc Schoechlin | Ruppmannstr. 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
