On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Will F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > > It always seemed to me that HowTo pages catered to those people who didn't > want to read "millions of pages of manpages" and just wanted things to work > now. Turnkey solutions. I completely agree that an article on how to setup a > simple public share is REALLY easy and all it takes is a quick Google search > or skim of the smb.conf man page. But at the same time, so are the rest of > the articles. My vision for this HowTo is really giving the yum command to > grab the package, a basic smb.conf, the location on where to put it, and the > service name on how to start it. That way someone can get a share up in less > than 5 minutes. I believe these are the more CentOS-related bits of Samba. > > Getting deeper into the advanced topics of Samba "explaining how to configure > the backend (old smbpasswd, newer tdbsam, or ldap when acting as a pdc), how > to integrate in existing Samba/Windows domain/AD , explaining Filesystem > ACLs" seem better suited for samba.org since anyone who wants to implement > that really needs intimate knowledge of their environment. I don't think they > would want to read a summarized version in a CentOS wiki. > > Comments? > > Thanks, > -will
I agree with your view. I would suggest you get started with a draft and we can all join in and make it most suitable for CentOS users. Akemi P.S. Could you try avoiding top-posting? Thanks. _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
