samba - Sep 2003 - Testpram question

Hello.  I am looking at using SAMBA 3.0.0 on a RedHat 9 server.  Have a 2.2.8
working.  I am having trouble with documents about 3.0.0.  Any recommendations
would be great, thanks.
Now the question.  I ran testpram on a 3.0.0 install and I get a "Server
role: ROLE_STANDALONE"  What is this? I see no reference to this.
Thanks for the help.


Karl Banasky
Computer Systems Administrator
HEATCON?
Email kbanasky@heatcon.com

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Karl Banasky wrote:
> Hello.  I am looking at using SAMBA 3.0.0 on a RedHat 9 server.  Have a
> 2.2.8 working.  I am having trouble with documents about 3.0.0.  Any
> recommendations would be great, thanks. Now the question.  I ran
> testpram on a 3.0.0 install and I get a "Server role:
ROLE_STANDALONE"
> What is this? I see no reference to this. Thanks for the help.
Karl,

What problems are you having with the documentation for 3.0.0? I'd like to
help, but your complaint is not clear.

There is in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that you will find in the
~samba/docs directory of the samba-3.0.0 tarball a chapter called "Server
Types and Security Modes" and there is a chpater on "Stand-Alone
Server"
configuration. Please help me to understand what I should have put into
the document that is not there. What did I get wrong? I am sure something
is wrong with the documentation if you believe this to be the case. Just
one request though, please help me to understand what I did wrong so it
can be fixed.

Cheers,
John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

Wow.  Thanks and what ignorance comes from me from time to time.  The documents
are a blissful sight, I briefly looked through them (I will explore more detail
soon) and what a work of art.  Thank you for pointing me to them, which I did
look at earlier but not much conviction as to if they were up to date (looked at
them from the SAMBA web sight).  Your words were all I needed to solidify its
accuracy.  Thanks again for the great job you and the rest of the SAMBA team
continue to do.  I look forward to learning more about 3.0.0 and answering some
posts on this list myself.
Cheers!

Oh, you asked for contributions to the documents lay out or something of the
like.  This is a small and might not be greatly relevant suggestion:  On the
title page put that it covers some 2.2.X and mostly 3.X as of date (differences
in italics?).  I say this with my own confusion as to the differences between
setting up a 2.2 server and a 3.0 sever, Is it greatly different? I do not know:
I will soon find out thou. Rhyme intentional:)
Thanks for listening.
Karl-
>>  On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Karl Banasky wrote:
 >>  > Hello.  I am looking at using SAMBA 3.0.0 on a RedHat 9 server. 
Have a
 >>  > 2.2.8 working.  I am having trouble with documents about 3.0.0. 
Any
 >>  > recommendations would be great, thanks. Now the question.  I ran
 >>  > testpram on a 3.0.0 install and I get a "Server role:
ROLE_STANDALONE"
 >>  > What is this? I see no reference to this. Thanks for the help.

 >>  Karl,

 >>  What problems are you having with the documentation for 3.0.0?
I'd like to
 >>  help, but your complaint is not clear.

 >>  There is in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that you will find in the
 >>  ~samba/docs directory of the samba-3.0.0 tarball a chapter called
"Server
 >>  Types and Security Modes" and there is a chpater on
"Stand-Alone Server"
 >>  configuration. Please help me to understand what I should have put
into
 >>  the document that is not there. What did I get wrong? I am sure
something
 >>  is wrong with the documentation if you believe this to be the case.
Just
 >>  one request though, please help me to understand what I did wrong so
it
 >>  can be fixed.

 >>  Cheers,
 >>  John T.
 >>  -- 
 >>  John H Terpstra
 >>  Email: jht@samba.org