Extra Resources
At some point during your work with Samba, you’ll want to turn to online or printed resources for news, updates, and aid.
Documentation and FAQs
It’s OK 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://www.samba.org. The most current
FAQ list, bug information, and distribution locations are located at
the web site, with links to all the Samba manual pages and HOWTOs.
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 the one at Google (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) have made sifting through years of valuable solutions 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 5 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 newsgroup, ...
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