Changeset 359 for branches/client-1.5/src

Timestamp:

Jan 5, 2010, 8:55:46 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Silvan Scherrer

Message:

readme and ipf fixes

Location:

branches/client-1.5/src

Files:

• help/ndpsmb.ipf (modified) (7 diffs)
• readme.txt (modified) (3 diffs)

branches/client-1.5/src/help/ndpsmb.ipf

@@ -9 +9 @@
 .nameit symbol=ressmb text='Samba Resource Properties'
 .nameit symbol=usage text='Usage'
-.nameit symbol=build text='Samba client for &os. version <$NDPSMB_VERSION> build <$NDPSMB_BUILD>'
+.nameit symbol=build text='Samba Client Plugin for &os. version <$NDPSMB_VERSION> build <$NDPSMB_BUILD>'
 
 :title.NetDrive for &os. Control Panel Help
@@ -17 +17 @@
 :h1.Introduction
 :p.
-Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client set originaly
-made for UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and &os. servers or
+Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client suite originaly
+made for the UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and &os. servers or
 clients. &os. has a native implementation of SMB/CIFS server/client set - IBM LAN
 Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven&csq.t been updated for a long time and
 have some compatibility problems with modern Windows SMB/CIFS implementations.
 :p.
-This package is the &os. port of Samba client made as the plugin to &nd.
- - a well known virtual file system for &os.. &os. Samba client provides
-seamles access to SMB/CIFS file shares over your network using TCP/IP as the
+This package is the &os. port of Samba client made as the plugin for&colon.
+:ul.
+:li.&nd. - a well known virtual file system for &os.
+:li.EVFS - the eComStation Virtual Filesystem for SMB
+:eul.:p.
+&os. Samba client provides seamles access to SMB/CIFS file shares over your network using TCP/IP as the
 underlying transport protocol.
 :p.
-The &os. Samba client consists of two modules&colon.
-:ul.
-:li.ndpsmb.dll - the NetDrive plugin itself.
-:li.smbcd.exe  - the Samba client daemon, which actually processes the requests from ndpsmb.dll. (not used anymore since v 1.5.0)
+The &os. Samba client consists of one module&colon.
+:ul.
+:li.ndpsmb.dll - the NetDrive plugin itself
+:eul.:p.
+Releases prior to version 1.5.0 had a second module which is now deprecated&colon.
+:ul.
+:li.smbcd.exe  - the Samba client daemon, which actually processes the requests from ndpsmb.dll
 :eul.
 .******************************************************
@@ -38 +44 @@
 Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can get
 the full sourcecode from our SVN repository, please refer to the Samba for &os. Homepage for details about downloading the source.
+:p.
+The NetDrive plugin for &os. is also available with full sourcecode.
 :p.
 So if you are using our plugin we kindly ask you to support netlabs.org.
@@ -61 +69 @@
 :parml.
 :pt.Workgroup
-:pd.Name of workgroup
+:pd.The name of workgroup to connect to.
 
 :pt.Server
-:pd.Name or IP address of server to connect to.
+:pd.The name or IP address of server to connect to.
 
 :pt.Share
-:pd.Name of share to connect to.
+:pd.The name of server resource (share) to connect to.
 
 :pt.User
-:pd.Name of user to log in.
+:pd.The name of user to login under.
 
 :pt.Password
-:pd.Password of user.
+:pd.The password of selected user.
 
 :pt.Master
-:pd.Name of master workgroup or server.
+:pd.the name of 'master' server or workgroup, used to get the list of workgroups when the concrete workgroup and server not specified.
 
 :pt.Mastertype
 :pd.0 if 'master' is the name of master server, 1 if 'master' is the name of master workgroup.
 
+:pt.Memlen
+:pd.The size of shared memory buffer allocated for every connection to SBM/CIFS resources in size of 64k blocks. The higher values could provide better access speed, but consume more memory.
+
 :pt.EA Support
-:pd.Switches on/off EA support.
+:pd.1 to support eCS (OS/2) Extended Attributes, 0 to not support it.
 
 :eparml.
@@ -89 +100 @@
 :p.
 To mount the exact server&csq.s share one need to specify both &csq.server&csq. and
-&csq.share&csq. parametres, the other parametres are optional. The root path of
+&csq.share&csq. parameters, the other parameters are optional. The root path of
 server&csq.s share will be mounted to the mounting path.
 :p.
 If one want to access all server shares, then only the &csq.server&csq., not the &csq.share&csq.
-parameter, should be specified,the other parametres are optional. The list of
+parameter, should be specified,the other parameters are optional. The list of
 server shares will be mounted to the mounting path.
 :p.
 If one want to access all servers within the workgroup, then only the &csq.workgroup&csq.,
-not the &csq.server&csq. parameter, should be specified, the other parametres are
+not the &csq.server&csq. parameter, should be specified, the other parameters are
 optional. The list of servers within the specified workgroup will be mounted to
 the mounting path.
@@ -121 +132 @@
 :p.
 The logfile is placed to your LOGFILES env path, if available. If the LOGFILES env is missing
-the logfile is placed into the netdrive directory. The logfile is called ndpsmb.log.
+the logfile is placed into the &nd. directory. The logfile is called ndpsmb.log.
 
 .******************************************************
 :h1.History
 :p.History of the Samba client for &nd.
+:ul.
+:li.:link reftype=hd res=001.Version 1.0:elink.
+:li.:link reftype=hd res=002.Version 1.5.0:elink.
+:eul
 :h2 res=001.Version 1.0
 :p.
@@ -209 +224 @@
 :li.fixed free disk space
 :li.added more return codes in the mount part (for evfsgui)
+:eul.
+:li.beta2
+:ul.
+:li.update to Samba 3.0.35 client code
+:eul.   
+:li.beta3
+:ul.
+:li.update to Samba 3.0.36 client code
+:li.codepage fix for system running non IBM-850 codepages (Ticket #100)
+:eul.
+:li.beta4
+:ul.
+:li.update to Samba 3.0.37 client code
+:li.codepage fix for Ticket #68
+:eul.   
+:li.GA
+:ul.
+:li.Fix memory leak in EA code
+:li.Ticket #111
 :eul.
 :eul.

branches/client-1.5/src/readme.txt

@@ -24 +24 @@
 Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client suite
 originally made for the UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and 
-eCS (OS/2) servers or clients. eCS (OS/2) has native implementation of SMB/CIFS
+eCS (OS/2) servers or clients. eCS (OS/2) has a native implementation of SMB/CIFS
 server/client set - IBM LAN Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven't been 
 updated for a long time and have some compatibility problems with modern 
@@ -31 +31 @@
 This package is the eCS (OS/2) port of Samba client made as the plugin for
 
-- NetDrive - a well known virtual file system for eCS (OS/2) or
+- NetDrive for eCS (OS/2) - a well known virtual file system for eCS (OS/2) or
 - EVFS - the eComStation Virtual Filesystem for SMB.
 
@@ -120 +120 @@
 
 To mount the exact server's share one need to specify both 'server' and
-'share' parametres, the other parametres are optional. The root path of
+'share' parameters, the other parameters are optional. The root path of
 server's share will be mounted to the mounting path.
 
 If one want to access all server shares, then only the 'server', not the 'share'
-parameter, should be specified,the other parametres are optional. The list of
+parameter, should be specified,the other parameters are optional. The list of
 server shares will be mounted to the mounting path.
 
 If one want to access all servers within the workgroup, then only the 'workgroup',
-not the 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other parametres are
+not the 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other parameters are
 optional. The list of servers within the specified workgroup will be mounted to
 the mounting path.