| 1 | #include <version.h>
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| 2 |                       Samba Client Plugin for <$OS>
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| 3 |                       Version <$NDPSMB_VERSION>
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| 4 |                       Build <$NDPSMB_BUILD>
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| 5 |                       __________________________________
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| 6 | 
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| 7 | CONTENTS
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| 8 | ________
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| 9 | 
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| 10 |  1. Introduction
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| 11 |  2. License
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| 12 |  3. Installation
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| 13 |  3.1 <$ND>
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| 14 |  3.2 EVFS
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| 15 |  3.3 Uninstallation
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| 16 |  4. NDPSMB.DLL usage
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| 17 |  4.1 <$ND>
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| 18 |  4.2 EVFS
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| 19 |  5. Debugging
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| 20 |  6. Changelog
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| 21 | 
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| 22 | 
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| 23 | 1. Introduction
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| 24 | _______________
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| 25 | 
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| 26 | Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client suite
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| 27 | originally made for the UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and 
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| 28 | <$OS> servers or clients. <$OS> has a native implementation of SMB/CIFS
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| 29 | server/client set - IBM LAN Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven't been 
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| 30 | updated for a long time and have some compatibility problems with modern 
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| 31 | Windows SMB/CIFS implementations.
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| 32 | 
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| 33 | This package is the <$OS> port of Samba client made as the plugin for
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| 34 | 
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| 35 | - <$ND> for <$OS> - a well known virtual file system for <$OS> or
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| 36 | - EVFS - the eComStation Virtual Filesystem for SMB.
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| 37 | 
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| 38 | <$OS> Samba client provides seamless access to SMB/CIFS file shares over 
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| 39 | your network using TCP/IP as the underlying transport protocol.
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| 40 | 
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| 41 | The <$OS> Samba client consists of one module:
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| 42 |    ndpsmb.dll - the <$ND>/EVFS plugin itself.
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| 43 |    
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| 44 | Releases prior to version 1.5.0 had a second module which is now deprecated:
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| 45 |    smbcd.exe  - the Samba client daemon, which actually processes the requests
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| 46 |                 from ndpsmb.dll
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| 47 | 
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| 48 | 2. License
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| 49 | __________
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| 50 | 
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| 51 | Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can get
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| 52 | the full sourcecode from our SVN repository, please refer to the Samba for 
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| 53 | <$OS> Homepage for details about downloading the source.
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| 54 | 
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| 55 | The <$ND> plugin is also available with full sourcecode.
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| 56 | 
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| 57 | So if you are using our plugin we kindly ask you to support netlabs.org.
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| 58 | Please refer to the Samba for <$OS> Homepage to learn how you can do
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| 59 | that!
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| 60 | 
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| 61 | 
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| 62 | Links:
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| 63 | 
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| 64 | Samba for <$OS> Homepage: http://samba.netlabs.org/
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| 65 | <$ND> Homepage: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/
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| 66 | Samba Homepage: http://www.samba.org/
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| 67 | 
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| 68 | 
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| 69 | 3. Installation
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| 70 | _______________
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| 71 | 
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| 72 | The plugin needs the klibc runtime named libc06*.dll (the innotek gcc runtime 
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| 73 | DLL) somewhere in your LIBPATH, if it is not there already (It comes with any
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| 74 | recent eComStation release).
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| 75 | The plugin needs the 32 bit TCP/IP stack. This stack comes with all eComStation
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| 76 | releases. If you have still the 16 bit stack, please search the net for the 
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| 77 | 32 bit stack.
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| 78 | 
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| 79 | 3.1 <$ND>
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| 80 | ____________
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| 81 | 
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| 82 | You must have <$ND> 2.2.1 or newer installed prior to installation of this
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| 83 | package. If you want to use 64bit file API, you should install 2.3 or newer
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| 84 | version of <$ND>. The installation is semi-automatic and consists of the 
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| 85 | following:
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| 86 | 
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| 87 |   - ndpsmb.dll installation :
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| 88 |       Run instpl.cmd from this package. It will place all files to the <$ND> 
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| 89 |       plugin directory.
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| 90 |       
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| 91 | 3.2 EVFS
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| 92 | ________
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| 93 | 
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| 94 |   - ndpsmb.dll installation : 
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| 95 |       Put ndpsmb.dll into x:\ecs\dll (where x: is your bootdrive)
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| 96 | 
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| 97 | 3.3 Uninstallation
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| 98 | __________________
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| 99 | 
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| 100 | Run the uninstpl.cmd script in order to deinstall the plugin again.
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| 101 | This will work for both EVFS and <$ND>.
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| 102 | 
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| 103 | 4. NDPSMB.DLL 
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| 104 | _____________
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| 105 | 
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| 106 | 
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| 107 | 4.1. Usage with <$ND>
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| 108 | ______________________
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| 109 | 
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| 110 | <$ND> Samba plugin is used according to general <$ND> usage rules. Read
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| 111 | the <$ND> documentation for more information. The SMB/CIFS resources could
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| 112 | be mounted either using command line nd.exe utility or WPS ndpm.exe utility 
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| 113 | of <$ND>.
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| 114 | 
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| 115 | The <$ND> Samba plugin parameters are:
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| 116 | 
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| 117 |    workgroup     - the name of workgroup to connect to.
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| 118 |    server        - the name of server to connect to.
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| 119 |    share         - the name of server resource (share) to connect to.
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| 120 |    user          - the name of user to login under.
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| 121 |    password      - the password of selected user.
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| 122 |    master        - the name of 'master' server or workgroup, used to get the 
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| 123 |                    list of workgroups when the concrete workgroup and server 
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| 124 |                    not specified.
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| 125 |    masterttype   - 0 if 'master' is the name of master server, 1 if 'master'
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| 126 |                    is the name of master workgroup.
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| 127 |    cache timeout - the time in seconds for which the cache is valid. If the 
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| 128 |                    time is over the client rereads the directory again. For a
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| 129 |                    directory with many files it may be better to increase the 
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| 130 |                    timeout. (rule of thumb: per 500-800 files 10 seconds). 
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| 131 |                    Default: 10 seconds
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| 132 |    cache listings- the amount of directories the cache should hold. Be aware: 
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| 133 |                    The higher the value, the more memory is used.
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| 134 |                    Default: 32 listings
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| 135 |    easupport     - 1 to support <$OS> Extended Attributes, 0 to not support it
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| 136 |    r/w           - define whether the resource should be read-only (r) or 
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| 137 |                    writeable (w)
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| 138 | 
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| 139 | To mount the exact server's share one need to specify both 'server' and
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| 140 | 'share' parameters, the other parameters are optional. The root path of
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| 141 | server's share will be mounted to the mounting path.
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| 142 | 
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| 143 | If one want to access all server shares, then only the 'server', not the 
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| 144 | 'share' parameter, should be specified,the other parameters are optional. 
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| 145 | The list of server shares will be mounted to the mounting path.
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| 146 | 
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| 147 | If one want to access all servers within the workgroup, then only the 
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| 148 | 'workgroup', not the 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other 
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| 149 | parameters are optional. The list of servers within the specified workgroup 
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| 150 | will be mounted to the mounting path.
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| 151 | 
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| 152 | If one want to access all available workgroups within one master browser
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| 153 | within the network, then only the 'master', not the 'workgroup' nor the 
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| 154 | 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other parameters are optional. 
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| 155 | The list of workgroups will be mounted to the mounting path. The 'master' 
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| 156 | workgroup can be any known workgroup in the net. The 'master' server should 
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| 157 | be the master browser for workgroup[s].
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| 158 | 
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| 159 | By default the 'guest' user with blank password is used to access selected
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| 160 | resources. If you get access denied errors, try to specify another user 
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| 161 | and password combination.
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| 162 | 
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| 163 | 4.2 Usage with EVFS
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| 164 | ___________________
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| 165 | 
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| 166 | eComStation comes with a GUI program named EVFSGUI which is even more feature
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| 167 | rich than the <$ND> GUI. EVFSGUI can also be used together with <$ND>.
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| 168 | Refer to the documentaion that comes with eCS.
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| 169 | 
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| 170 | 5. Debugging
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| 171 | ____________
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| 172 | 
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| 173 | To produce a logfile please add an empty file called ndpsmb.dbg into the 
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| 174 | root drive.
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| 175 | 
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| 176 | The logfile is placed to your LOGFILES env path, if available. If the 
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| 177 | LOGFILES environment variable is missing, the logfile is placed into the 
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| 178 | <$ND> directory. The logfile is called log.ndpsmb for the <$ND> part
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| 179 | and log.smbc for the Samba part.
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| 180 | 
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| 181 | 
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| 182 | 6. Changelog
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| 183 | ____________
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| 184 | 
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| 185 | #include <changelog.txt>
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