samba - Jan 2003 - re: website samba.org is missing most of the documentation?

Although I've installed samba-common, -server, -doc version 2.2.7a (from
the Mandrake 9 distribution), thr -doc RPM is broken since it actually
didn't install any of the files it claimed it would.

No problem, I thought, I'll just read it online.

Except for some reason, in his/her infinite wisdom, your webmaster has
apparently decided not to put most of your documentation on your website
- where is it? Why is it not online? I cannot belive I am the first person
in the world trying to read documenation online?

E.g. Go to http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/ and all you will find
are links to man-pages for the samba tools. What on earth has happened
to (picking a chunk out of the list that the samba-doc-2.2.7arpm claims
to install):

/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/DNIX.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Faxing.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/GOTCHAS.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/HINTS.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/INSTALL.sambatar
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Imprints.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Macintosh_Clients.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/NetBIOS.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/PROFILES.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Passwords.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/README.DCEDFS
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/README.NOW
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/README.jis
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/README.sambatar
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Recent-FAQs.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/RoutedNetworks.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/SCO.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/SMBTAR.notes
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Samba-OpenSSL.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Speed2.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Tracing.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/UNIX-SMB.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/UNIX_SECURITY.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/Win95.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/WinNT.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/cifsntdomain.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/outdated
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/outdated/NTDOMAIN.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/outdated/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/outdated/PROJECTS
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs/security_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/yodldocs
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/yodldocs/README-NOW

?

Why are these not online?

Having trawled through all the contacts
pages on samba.org, you never provide an address for problems with the
website - so hopefuly this is the right address?

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 spam@tmachine.net wrote:
> Except for some reason, in his/her infinite wisdom, your webmaster has
> apparently decided not to put most of your documentation on your website
> - where is it? Why is it not online? I cannot belive I am the first
> person in the world trying to read documenation online?
We don't have a webmaster.  The web site is stored in cvs (so you could 
submit pacthes if you wished).  
> E.g. Go to http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/ and all you will find
> are links to man-pages for the samba tools. What on earth has happened
> to (picking a chunk out of the list that the samba-doc-2.2.7arpm claims
> to install):
Most of the textdocs are being deprecated in favour of the SGML versions 
which are linked under the "Other Documention" column beside the man
page
links.  Look for the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.




cheers, jerry
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