[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 479/727] modified Samba chapter

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:05:08 UTC 2010


commit beb3899710d9352244e49b33e35434a78b162b7f
Author: Martin Prpic <mprpic at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 25 09:21:32 2010 +0200

    modified Samba chapter

 en-US/Samba.xml |   22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Samba.xml b/en-US/Samba.xml
index 4d79106..26c3723 100644
--- a/en-US/Samba.xml
+++ b/en-US/Samba.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
       class="registered">Windows</trademark>, Linux, UNIX, and other operating systems together, enabling access to Windows-based file and printer shares. Samba's use of <systemitem class="protocol">SMB</systemitem> allows it to appear as a Windows server to Windows clients.</para>
       <note>
         <title>Note: Installing the <package>samba</package> package</title>
-        <para>In order to use Samba, first ensure the <package>samba</package> package is installed on your system by running, as root:</para>
+        <para>In order to use <application>Samba</application>, first ensure the <package>samba</package> package is installed on your system by running, as root:</para>
         <screen>~]#&#160;<command>yum install samba</command></screen>
         <para>For more information on installing packages with Yum, refer to <xref linkend="sec-Installing"/>.</para>
       </note>
@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@
       <para>Sometimes it is useful to mount a Samba share to a directory so that the files in the directory can be treated as if they are part of the local file system.</para>
       <para>To mount a Samba share to a directory, create a directory to mount it to (if it does not already exist), and execute the following command as root:</para>
       <screen>
-<command>mount -t cifs -o <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable>,<replaceable>&lt;password&gt;</replaceable> //<replaceable>&lt;servername&gt;</replaceable>/<replaceable>&lt;sharename&gt;</replaceable>
-          <replaceable>/mnt/point/</replaceable>
+<command>mount -t cifs //<replaceable>&lt;servername&gt;</replaceable>/<replaceable>&lt;sharename&gt;</replaceable>
+          <replaceable>/mnt/point/</replaceable> -o username=<replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable>,password=<replaceable>&lt;password&gt;</replaceable>
         </command>
       </screen>
 			<!-- RHEL5:  	tech review: above replaces below
@@ -291,7 +291,17 @@
 <screen>
 <command>mount -t  smbfs -o username=<replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable> //<replaceable>&lt;servername&gt;</replaceable>/<replaceable>&lt;sharename&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>/mnt/point/</replaceable></command>
 </screen> -->
-      <para>This command mounts <replaceable>&lt;sharename&gt;</replaceable> from <replaceable>&lt;servername&gt;</replaceable> in the local directory <replaceable>/mnt/point/</replaceable>. For more information about mounting a samba share, refer to <command>man mount.cifs</command>.</para>
+      <para>This command mounts <replaceable>&lt;sharename&gt;</replaceable> from <replaceable>&lt;servername&gt;</replaceable> in the local directory <replaceable>/mnt/point/</replaceable>.
+      </para>
+      <note>
+        <title>Note: Installing <package>cifs-utils</package> package</title>
+        <para>The <application>mount.cifs</application> utility is a separate RPM (independent from Samba). In order to use <application>mount.cifs</application>, first ensure the <package>cifs-utils</package> package is installed on your system by running, as root:</para>
+        <screen>~]#&#160;<command>yum install cifs-utils</command></screen>
+        <para>For more information on installing packages with Yum, refer to <xref linkend="sec-Installing"/>.</para>
+      </note>
+      <para>
+      For more information about mounting a samba share, refer to <command>man mount.cifs</command>.
+      </para>
     </section>
   </section>
 	<!-- RHEL5:   ddomingo at redhat.com: moved SAMBA config guide to here	  -->
@@ -2139,8 +2149,8 @@ Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
           <para>
             <filename>/usr/share/doc/samba-&lt;<replaceable>version-number</replaceable>&gt;/</filename> — All additional files included with the Samba distribution. This includes all helper scripts, sample configuration files, and documentation.</para>
             <note>
-              <title>Note: Installing the samba-doc package</title>
-              <para>In order to the Samba documentation, first ensure the samba-doc package is installed on your system by running, as root:</para>
+              <title>Note: Installing the <package>samba-doc</package> package</title>
+              <para>In order to the <application>Samba</application> documentation, first ensure the <package>samba-doc</package> package is installed on your system by running, as root:</para>
               <screen>~]#&#160;<command>yum install samba-doc</command></screen>
               <para>For more information on installing packages with Yum, refer to <xref linkend="sec-Installing"/>.</para>
             </note>


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