Comment Re:Oh goodie (Score 2, Insightful) 156
I would be very interested in seeing you write something like the HOWTO Collection. Yes, I'll admit, it was written by experts, but the language presented here is certainly not by any stretch of the imagination "difficult language."
I think your comment about the authors being unable to relate to simple end uers is very unfair. John and Jelmer, and indeed all of the other contributors, do an amazing job relating to end users.
Like a good open source project, this book was composed in such a way that input from _all_ users was greatly appreciated. If you feel that this document is useless, or if there is a section that you feel is hard to understand, by all means, do something about it. Write a new chapter, rewrite a section, add a section, do whatever is necessary. If you send your changes to John or Jelmer, I'm sure they will be merged into the next version of the book, and into the online version.
Granted, I am no stranger to Samba and CIFS itself, but when going through this book, I read it with as much of a new user's perspective as possible, and found that it was very complete and very useful. There was no time in which I felt that a new user should feel overwhelmed by the information presented nor the manner in which this information was presented.
Vance Lankhaar
I think your comment about the authors being unable to relate to simple end uers is very unfair. John and Jelmer, and indeed all of the other contributors, do an amazing job relating to end users.
Like a good open source project, this book was composed in such a way that input from _all_ users was greatly appreciated. If you feel that this document is useless, or if there is a section that you feel is hard to understand, by all means, do something about it. Write a new chapter, rewrite a section, add a section, do whatever is necessary. If you send your changes to John or Jelmer, I'm sure they will be merged into the next version of the book, and into the online version.
Granted, I am no stranger to Samba and CIFS itself, but when going through this book, I read it with as much of a new user's perspective as possible, and found that it was very complete and very useful. There was no time in which I felt that a new user should feel overwhelmed by the information presented nor the manner in which this information was presented.
Vance Lankhaar
