Errata

Using Samba

Errata for Using Samba

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xiii-xiv
The following text was added to the preface

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 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 6
In the first paragraph:

"back slashes" was changed to "backslashes"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 13

The last paragraph used to read:

"You can find out the node type of any Windows
machine by typing the command ipconfig /all..."

This paragraph and the example that followed were removed
and replaced with:

"You can find out the node type of a Windows 95/98 machine
with the "More Info" button of the winipcfg command. On
Windows NT, type ipconfig /all and search for line that says
Node Type."

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 20
In the second paragraph

3.5 was replaced by 3.1.

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 27
2nd paragraph (under smbd)

The line reads: "smdb handles all notifications between the Samba server and the network clients." "smdb" should be changed to "smbd".

 Anonymous  Jul 25, 2011 
Printed
Page 42
In the owl note

"smbpassword -a steve" was changed to:

"smbpasswd -a steve"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 62 & 73
In the turkey note on each page:

"encrypt password=yes" was changed to:

"encrypt passwords=yes"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 71
Under the "Hosts files" section, the sentence

"The Windows host file should appear in the WINDOWSHOSTS
directory of whatever local drive Windows is installed on."

was changed to:

"If Windows NT is installed in the directory C:WINNT, the host
file is C:WINNTSystem32driversetcHOSTS."


 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 77
In the second sentence of the second paragraph

"Wndows NT" was changed to "Windows NT"


 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 89
In the first paragraph

"in the context of the [pub] share"

was removed.

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 111
In Table 4.7, the "Function" column, "Max Log Size" row


".bak" was changed to:

".old"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 112
The semicolon in front of "debug timestamp or timestamp logs"

was removed.

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 120
In the first bullet of the section "Multiple subnets",

the parenthesized sentence:

"(If you have a domain master browser in a
subnet, a local master browser is not needed.)"

was removed.

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 123
The last line used to read:

"//server/accounting"

It now reads:

"\serveraccounting"

Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 141
In the owl note:

"force create mask" was changed to:

"force create mode"


 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 143
In Table 5-6, the File Naming Rules for both Windows 95/98

and Windows NT were changed to:

"255 characters; case insensitive but case preserving"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 144

At the bottom of this page, the example that read:

[global]

include = /ucsr/local/9781565924499/lib/smb.conf.%m

now reads:

include = /usr/local/9781565924499/lib/smb.conf.%a

Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 178
Last sentence of the first paragraph now starts with "If", not "Is".

Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 197
In the section entitled "logon drive":

"logon home" was changed to:

"logon drive"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 229
In the third paragraph

"the system password file" was changed to:

"the system hosts file"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 231
In the examples in sections "Time Synchronization" and "Time

Server":

"time service = yes" was changed to:

"time server = yes"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 237

The text used to read:

"This tool is provided with Windows 95 OSR2 and
comes standard with Windows 98"

It now reads:

"This tool comes standard with Windows for
Workgroups and Windows 95/98"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 237
The sentence starting was:

"With Windows NT..." to:

was changed to:

"With Windows NT, the messenger service lets you
receive messages without starting such a tool..."

Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 244
The last line of the "panic action" example was changed to

* 'xedit <<: "Samba has shutdown unexpectedly" ; :'

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 261

The text used to read:

"TCP/IP Network Administration protocol stack"

It now reads:

"TCP/IP protocol stack"


 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 292
In the list of mailing lists at the bottom, change

9781565924499-bugs@samba.org

to:

9781565924499@samba.org

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 293
The following item was added after the 9781565924499@samba.org

item:

"http://kt.linuxcare.com/KC/9781565924499/

This is an edited commentary on the Samba development lists,
much like the Linux "Kernel Traffic" site. Reading this site
is an easy way to keep current with Samba changes."

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 313
In the last paragraph before heading, after the sentence

"Andrew Tridgell released..." another sentence was added:

"You can learn about these benchmarks at
ftp://9781565924499.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README."


 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 316
broken links

http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/win95netbugs/faq.html

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 316
The final sentence in the Owl note:

"To understand this..." was removed.

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 321
In the sentence:

"A 100 Mb/s Fast Ethernet will bottleneck below 65,000KB/s
with the same packet size",

the value "65,000" was changed to:

"6,500"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 324
In the last paragraph:

"MB/s" was changed to:

"KB/s"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 324
In Table B.5, in the "Add 3 more Ethernets" row, "CPU

Throughput" column:

"16000"

was changed to:

"6000"

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 325
"How Many Clients can Samba Handle" was changed to


"How Many Clients Can Samba Handle"



 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 325
(36 clientsx2.3 transfers/secondx12k file 1 MB/s) was

changed to:

(36 clientsx2.3 transfers/secondx12k file=1 MB/s)

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
Printed
Page 378
The following sentence was added to the end of the first

paragraph:

"The Samba team describes various ways to access its
CVS site at http://cvs.9781565924499.org/cvs.html."

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000