This is the README file for GnoSamba-0.3.3

INTRODUCTION

GnoSamba is a GUI tool for the Configuration of the Samba, the SMB
file server on X11/Unix. It will read, edit and write /etc/smb.conf,
an alternate configuration file, or from a network. It uses the GTK
toolkit and requires Gtk+ 1.2.x and Gnome-libs 1.0

This is an early devlopment release, not all functionality is
implemented. 

INSTALLATION

If your in an xterm you can probably just cut and paste the following
into your command line:

./configure && make && ./src/gnosamba

and GnoSamba will be running.

Otherwise step by step:

GnoSamba now uses GNU autoconf, so after untarring the
gnosamba-<version>.tar.gz cd to gnosamba-<version> you need to run the
configure script to create the Makefile.

By default the configure script uses /usr/local as the install
prefix. If you want a different install location use the --prefix
option to the configure script. 

So your configure command might look something like:

./configure  [ --prefix=/somedir ]

See the included file INSTALL or type './configure --help' for more
options to the configure script. After you have sucsessfully run the
script just type:

make

to build the binary and type

./src/gnosamba 

to run it. If you wanna keep it around just do the following:

make install.

TESTING IT SAFELY.

Considering that SMB services can be very critical in a production
enviroment, you may not wish to try Gnosamba for the first time on a
corporate network on a busy Monday morning. To test it safely, you can
run it as a non-root user using alternate files. Also, if you try to
write to a file that you have no write permision to, Gnosamba will
dump the output to stdout. Hence, running Gnosamba as a non-root user
from a terminal is a great way to test it out. Then when you're
confident it's safe you can try it on a real server.

TO DO

1. Improve the service guru for to allow for easy modification of services

2. Do similar configuration guides for the global, homes, and
printing services.

3. Implement specific configuration guides domain controller, encrypted
passwords, etc. 

4. Generate individual GUI dialogs for some special parameters.

5. Enable managing of remote servers, mounting via SMB or NFS, or thru
SSH or RSH access.

6. Interface to smbadduser and smbpassword.

7. Write usefull comments into the config file, so you can edit it by
hand if you wish. 


BUG REPORTS, FEATURE REQUESTS AND COMMENTS:

send to perry@open-systems.com