samba.org website

[Troy Phagan]

Hi, I apologize for this in advance since this is not about Samba 
documentation per se, but about the samba.org website itself. I could 
not find any direct email addresses for a website maintainer, (except 
for the talented & overwhelmed "tridge") so I am using (hopefully 
not abusing...) this list in the hopes this information is helpful.
So, here goes....

I'm a newbie, and have been trying to use the SWAT tool on my redhat 
7.3 machine, without success.  In my endeavers, I have looked at 
the links to the gui alternatives at http://samba.org/samba/GUI/

However, I have found that some of the links and linked pages are 
broken, or very dated.  The (http://samba.org/samba/GUI/) page could 
use some updating.  I only provide this feedback as constructive 
criticism from a newbie's view.  Please let me emphasize "constructive.
"  Here is what I have found:

"KSamba", according to the info at the listed link (http://www.kneschke.
de/projekte/ksamba), it says the project is dead.  I did not find 
any related links to any KSamba information.

"B+B Samba Admin Tool" link and info seems to be relevant, but I 
did not pursue the links further.  As a newbie, I cannot tell if 
the tool is relevant to all distrib's and flavors of *nix or not.


There is no link to the "SWAT" tool under the SWAT heading.

The "Webmin" project seems very alive, & current. (I think I am going 
to try this next on my box...)

The "SMB2WWW Gateway software" link works, but the info at the site 
(http://samba.org/samba/smb2www/index.html) seems very dated.  (Seems 
the project died in 1998?)  I don't know if the tool is still relevant 
to the current version of Samba.

"SMB2WWW - another one" project web page is dated at March 27th 1997.
The info & the project may be relevant, but the info at the site 
is over my head.

The link under the "bbSAT" heading: http://www.hpe3000.de/angebote/software/tools.
htm is browseable, but is in German (i think it's German?....)  Also,
I think this is the same thing as the B+B Samba Admin tool, but 
documented in German.

The JAVA based "smbconftool" project and link is still up, but advertises 
as being a "1.0 Beta Currently this software is bare minimum functionality.
"

"smb-mode.el - Emacs mode" link is broken.  (http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/smbmode.
html)?

"GSMB - a GTK interface to smbpasswd" This project's page is a bit 
confusing in English & French, and it seems to have stalled as of 
1999-09-30. 

"xSMBrowser - a GUI interface to smbclient" This project's link & 
pages seem relevant.  The link goes to the owner's page of various 
projects, not directly to the project itself.  The owner says, "Note 
that this project is getting a bit dated, but still seems very popular 
(~1000 dl/week). Word to the wise: Study this program and samba, 
and then create an open source C++ networking project for Linux. 
If you've got the knowhow, you'll be a GNU hero. "

"Liveserver SMB Browser" The link is broken (returns a 404 error 
in German?)
 
"SambaSentinel" -This link is broken.

Also, the link English link http://samba.org/samba/about.html is 
lacking key content.  Curiously, there is content at http://de.samba.
org/samba/about.html

Lastly, the "survey" link and content appears to very dated, and 
many links  on the page are broken. http://www.samba.org/samba/survey/

Again, please accept this as humble feedback with the intent that 
this information can expedite the usage of a very useful tool.

Regards,
Troy P