samba - Oct 2000 - Samba FAQ

As many other of you, I've been finding myself irritated over reading the
same questions over and over again.

There is a official FAQ at samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ. I'm unaware of how
often
this FAQ is updated, etc.

Now, the idea that came to my mind was that I could actively maintain such a
FAQ, without creating another FAQ which just ends up making it all more complex.

My idea is to: Create a simple xml file format (similar to the kernel Cousines)
which each entry is added with. Each entry contains Question, Answer and a
longer desctiption if neccesary, author, e-mail, updated date, rev. no, language
and separate sections for samba-urls (url's to other doc. at samba.org
pages),
and external URL's. So instead of trying to redo Lars' and David
Bannon's
work on respectively samba TNG and samba 2.0.x it would simply reference it.

Secondly, it would be posslible for anyone wishing to do so to translate this
information into other languages, in order to make it easier to understand.

Please, let me know if I'm stepping someone on their toes with this
suggestion,
otherwicse please count this as me  volunteering for samba, and so that
samba-technical@samba.org can once again be more technical related.


Regards,

Anders C. Thorsen
anders@aae.wisc.edu

At 04:12 PM 19/10/2000 -0500, Anders C . Thorsen wrote:
>
>There is a official FAQ at samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ. I'm unaware of how
often
>this FAQ is updated, etc.
Well, I'm doing so at this very moment. I'm particularly addressing
Samba
2.2.0, ie not the various development streams. Its being written in yodl so
it can be translated to other formats although this is currently under
review (or at least I hope it under review).

Have a look at http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba for a draft of both PDC
HowTo and FAQ. Comments are very welcome.
>Please, let me know if I'm stepping someone on their toes with this
suggestion,

Not at all, the current one is actually mis-leading because of the changes
that are taking place all over that samba concept. I do like the kernel
Cousin idea, there is a Samba one but there seems little Samba PDC
interest. Hmm....

David



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