svn commit: samba-web r643 - in trunk/docs: .
jelmer at samba.org
jelmer at samba.org
Tue Apr 26 07:21:22 GMT 2005
Author: jelmer
Date: 2005-04-26 07:21:19 +0000 (Tue, 26 Apr 2005)
New Revision: 643
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=643
Log:
Remove some outdated docs (some parts of these have been moved
into the HOWTO before). /smbfs/ still needs updating
Removed:
trunk/docs/sambay2k.html
trunk/docs/security.html
Modified:
trunk/docs/index.html
Changeset:
Modified: trunk/docs/index.html
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--- trunk/docs/index.html 2005-04-25 20:21:50 UTC (rev 642)
+++ trunk/docs/index.html 2005-04-26 07:21:19 UTC (rev 643)
@@ -111,9 +111,6 @@
<li><a href="SambaIntro.html">An Introduction to Samba</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html">What is SMB?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.samba.org/cifs/">What is CIFS?</a></li>
- <li><a href="security.html">Some notes about Win95 and WfWg security</a></li>
- <li><a href="/samba/smbfs">smbmount and the smbfs filesystems</a></li>
- <li><a href="sambay2k.html">Samba Year 2000 (Y2K) issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Translation projects</h4>
Deleted: trunk/docs/sambay2k.html
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--- trunk/docs/sambay2k.html 2005-04-25 20:21:50 UTC (rev 642)
+++ trunk/docs/sambay2k.html 2005-04-26 07:21:19 UTC (rev 643)
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-<!--#include virtual="/samba/header.html" -->
-
-<H2 align="center">Year 2000 Issues</H2>
-
-<BR><p>
-We are starting to get a lot of Y2K compliance questions. The answer
-is an unqualified "yes". Samba has no difficulty with dates from now
-until well into the next century. However, since Samba is nearly
-always used with many other pieces of software to create an SMB
-filesharing network it is important to understand the issues.
-
-<H2>Server Issues</H2>
-
-<p>Firstly, <b>Samba does not have any Y2K problems</b>. Dates are stored
-internally in the standard Unix 32 bit time since-1970 format (known
-as time_t format). Samba has to manipulate dates in other formats but
-these other formats (those that SMB uses) do not have a Y2K problem
-either. This is true no matter what platform Samba is running on, even
-if the platform does not understand time_t at all.
-
-<p>At least one person has run a Y2K compliance tester over Samba. The
-only problem found was that the date format logged in the debug logs
-used a strftime() macro which produces a 2 digit year. This didn't
-really matter as these logs are never read by a program, they are just
-there for humans to read if they want to know who logged in when. This
-problem has been fixed in the current release - please don't report
-it again!
-
-<p>Secondly, <b>the SMB protocol that Samba uses does not have a Y2K
-problem.</b> None of the date formats in SMB (and there are several)
-are ASCII and none suffer from Y2K rollover. There are lots of other
-problems with SMB date handling but Y2K isn't one of them. In some
-ways this is just pure luck as date handling is one of the worst
-aspects of the SMB protocol (it is truly horrendous!). These other
-problems are the same for all implementations of SMB, such as Windows
-NT, OS/2 etc.
-
-<p>However, <b>the operating system that you run Samba on <em>may</em>
-have a Y2K problem.</b> Samba runs on around 40 operating systems from
-nearly as many different vendors, from Fujitsu to IBM to
-Siemens-Nixdorf and so on. We have no way of knowing what the
-behaviour of all of these operating systems will be in the year 2000,
-although all users should be trying to find out now. Samba might fail
-on some of these systems due to the failure of some essential
-underlying service (networking, printing subsystem etc). On Unix (and
-most Samba sites run Unix) can take some comfort in the knowledge that
-nearly all Unix system utilities do what Samba does and use time_t
-date formats which are safe in Y2K.
-
-<p>Even under Unix there are some exceptions though, but there is no way
-that the Samba Team can know what operating system you are running or
-what weird utilities you use that may cause problems. All users should
-be making sure that their operating systems and utilities are known to
-be Y2K-safe. There are some very intensive efforts going on in the
-free software community to make sure that open source products do not
-have any problems. With operating systems like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
-and others you can run compliance testers yourself and be as sure as
-it is possible to be that your server is safe.
-
-<h2>Client Issues</h2>
-
-<p>Regardless of how Y2K-safe the server is, <b>the clients you use to
-access Samba may have problems.</b> This is in fact the most likely
-source of difficulties. If the clients do have a problem then it won't
-matter which server you are using (Samba, Windows NT, Syntax etc), you
-will hit the same problems. It is likely that any problems you do hit
-won't have anything to do with the SMB subsystem in your client, but
-it is certainly not guaranteed.
-
-<p>The problems are most likely to be in the operating systems that
-the clients are using. The most common clients are Windows 3.1,
-Windows 95, DOS and Windows NT machines, and there is a lot of
-literature to read on their behaviour in Y2K. Macintosh, OS/2 and
-other clients should be checked as well, of course.
-
-<h2>Documenting Y2K Compliance for Samba-Related Software</h2>
-
-<p>Over time it should be possible to build a table of software used in
-Samba installations and indicating whether it has been checked, and if so
-what the result was.
-
-<p><b>I would greatly appreciate it if people who run Y2K tests involving
-Samba could please forward the results to <a
-href="mailto:samba at samba.org">samba at samba.org</a>,
-and note whether you will allow the results to be published on this web site.</b>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/samba/footer.html" -->
Deleted: trunk/docs/security.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/security.html 2005-04-25 20:21:50 UTC (rev 642)
+++ trunk/docs/security.html 2005-04-26 07:21:19 UTC (rev 643)
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<!--#include virtual="/samba/header.html" -->
-
-<H2 align="center">Client Security Patches</h2>
-
-<p>If you use Windows 95 or Windows for Workgroups you may want to
-check these articles from Microsoft:
-
-<h2>Password File Updates</h2>
-<ul>
- <li><A href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q132/8/07.asp">
- Enhanced Encryption for Windows 95 Password Cache</A>
- <li>WFWG: No word of an update for workgroups yet, but you might want to read
- <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q92/5/88.asp">WFWG:
- Password Caching and How It Affects LAN Manager Security</A>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>File Sharing Updates</h2>
-<ul>
- <li>
- <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q128/0/79.asp">Windows 95</A>
- <li>
- <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q136/4/18.asp"> Windows for Workgroups Patch</A>
-</ul>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/samba/footer.html" -->
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