Using Samba, 2nd Edition
by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated September 24, 2003.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


[53]  code at bottom of page;
The attribute "only_from" under Red Hat 7.3 only worked if I used
1) either the canonical form of "localhost.localdomain"
2) or the the numeric address "127.0.0.1".
Using the "localhost" value SWAT didn't start at all.

# description: swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool, which
#       allows an administrator to configure Samba using a web
#       browser interface, with the URL http://localhost:901
service swat.
{
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        protocol                = tcp
???     only_from               = localhost     ???
        user                    = root
        log_on_failure          += USERID
        server                  = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
        port                    = 901
        disable                 = no
}


{173}  Example code following paragraph 5;
I'm using samba 2.2.8a and trying some of the examples on page 173. The example
following paragraph 5:

smbclient //maya/e -A samba-domain-pw -c "cd trans; tarmode full hidden\
  system quiet; tar >maya-e-trans.tar"

the redirection character should be the letter 'c' to indicate creation of a tar
backup file, followed by a space.

As a result, the corrected command should be:

smbclient //maya/e -A samba-domain-pw -c "cd trans; tarmode full hidden\
  system quiet; tar c maya-e-trans.tar"

{374} 
"Testing connections with net use"
The command 
"net use * \servername\temp"
should be 
"net use * \\servername\temp"


{399} top of page;
There is:
    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
Should be:
    add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u