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Any attempt to use Help inside GnoSamba generates an error message "Cannot open man page. Verify you have it installed and in your MANPATH". With no MANPATH defined, the console window from which I launched GnoSamba indicates that the program is looking for man pages in "/usr/man/man5" and "/usr/local/man/man5". Since the man pages moved to "/usr/share/man" in the 7.0 RedHat release, perhaps this program's rpm should be rebuilt to look for its man pages in the new location. As info, setting MANPATH to "/usr/share/man" does allow the program to operate normally. However, having to set MANPATH to a value included in the default man path used by every other app would seem to me to be bad policy...
Can you please try out this package: http://people.redhat.com/timp/RPMS/GnoSamba-0.3.3-11.i386.rpm It's patched with the default /usr/share/man path included. Please let me know how it goes, either way. Tim
Got the new RPM and installed it. 'Help' works as expected. There were four additional console messages of the form '<standard input>:5460: warning: numeric expression expected (got 's')'. The other three were the same message with numbers 5526, 5550, and 5579 against "/usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.gz". Help did display the requested info. Perhaps just a formatting issue?
I think that it's expected behaviour. If you test it like I did (cp /usr/share/man/man5 to /usr/man/man5) and run the old client the same output on the console is given, and the same happens when MANPATH is set to /usr/share/man. I am resolving this to "rawhide" for right now. I will release an errata for this once it gets through the QA process, ance that's done it will be resolved to "errata". Tim
Thanks, and "case closed."