Extra Resources
At some point during your Samba career, you will want to turn to online or printed resources for news, updates, and aid.
Documentation and FAQs
It’s okay to read the documentation. Really. Nobody can see you, and we won’t tell. In fact, Samba ships with a large set of documentation files, and it is well worth the effort to at least browse through them, either in the distribution directory on your computer under /docs, or online at the Samba web site:
http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/. The most current FAQ list, bug information, and distribution locations are located at the web site, with links to all of the Samba manual pages and HOW-TOs.
Samba Newsgroups
Usenet newsgroups have always been a great place to get advice on just about any topic. In the past few years, though, this vast pool of knowledge has developed something that has made it into an invaluable resource: a memory. Archival and search sites such as DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com) have made sifting through years of valuable solutions on a topic as simple as a few mouse clicks.
The primary newsgroup for Samba is comp.protocols.smb. This should always be your first stop when there’s a problem. More often than not, spending five minutes researching an error here will save hours of frustration while trying to debug something yourself.
When searching a newsgroup, try to be as specific as possible, but not too wordy. Searching on actual error messages is best. If you don’t find an answer immediately in the ...