samba.org website
Troy Phagan <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:32:40 -0600
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Hi, I apologize for this in advance since this is not about Samba documentation per se, but about the samba.org website itself. I could not find any direct email addresses for a website maintainer, (except for the talented & overwhelmed "tridge") so I am using (hopefully not abusing...) this list in the hopes this information is helpful. So, here goes.... I'm a newbie, and have been trying to use the SWAT tool on my redhat 7.3 machine, without success. In my endeavers, I have looked at the links to the gui alternatives at http://samba.org/samba/GUI/ However, I have found that some of the links and linked pages are broken, or very dated. The (http://samba.org/samba/GUI/) page could use some updating. I only provide this feedback as constructive criticism from a newbie's view. Please let me emphasize "constructive. " Here is what I have found: "KSamba", according to the info at the listed link (http://www.kneschke. de/projekte/ksamba), it says the project is dead. I did not find any related links to any KSamba information. "B+B Samba Admin Tool" link and info seems to be relevant, but I did not pursue the links further. As a newbie, I cannot tell if the tool is relevant to all distrib's and flavors of *nix or not. There is no link to the "SWAT" tool under the SWAT heading. The "Webmin" project seems very alive, & current. (I think I am going to try this next on my box...) The "SMB2WWW Gateway software" link works, but the info at the site (http://samba.org/samba/smb2www/index.html) seems very dated. (Seems the project died in 1998?) I don't know if the tool is still relevant to the current version of Samba. "SMB2WWW - another one" project web page is dated at March 27th 1997. The info & the project may be relevant, but the info at the site is over my head. The link under the "bbSAT" heading: http://www.hpe3000.de/angebote/software/tools. htm is browseable, but is in German (i think it's German?....) Also, I think this is the same thing as the B+B Samba Admin tool, but documented in German. The JAVA based "smbconftool" project and link is still up, but advertises as being a "1.0 Beta Currently this software is bare minimum functionality. " "smb-mode.el - Emacs mode" link is broken. (http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/smbmode. html)? "GSMB - a GTK interface to smbpasswd" This project's page is a bit confusing in English & French, and it seems to have stalled as of 1999-09-30. "xSMBrowser - a GUI interface to smbclient" This project's link & pages seem relevant. The link goes to the owner's page of various projects, not directly to the project itself. The owner says, "Note that this project is getting a bit dated, but still seems very popular (~1000 dl/week). Word to the wise: Study this program and samba, and then create an open source C++ networking project for Linux. If you've got the knowhow, you'll be a GNU hero. " "Liveserver SMB Browser" The link is broken (returns a 404 error in German?) "SambaSentinel" -This link is broken. Also, the link English link http://samba.org/samba/about.html is lacking key content. Curiously, there is content at http://de.samba. org/samba/about.html Lastly, the "survey" link and content appears to very dated, and many links on the page are broken. http://www.samba.org/samba/survey/ Again, please accept this as humble feedback with the intent that this information can expedite the usage of a very useful tool. Regards, Troy P