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Chapter 1.1 About This Guide

This user's guide walks you step-by-step through the straightforward process of installing and configuring your SME Server. The Appendices in the back of the guide provide background information on subjects related to networking and the Internet and are intended to supplement chapters in the main section of the user's guide.

1.1.1. Production

We created this user's guide using Docbook on the Linux operating system. Images were created using The GIMP.

The HTML version of this manual was generated from DocBook XML using libxslt with customized XSLT stylesheets. More information about our documentation process is available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/ most of the editing was done by Dan York and Kirrily "Skud" Robert using the vim editor.

1.1.2. History

• January 2004 - First print edition of the SME Server User Guide published by Contribs.org. Available on your installation CD or on the contribs.org site http://contribs.org/modules/phpwiki/ primary author/editor Craig Jensen.

• January 2002 - First print edition of the SME Server User Guide published by Mitel Networks Corporation. Also published in HTML and DocBook XML/SGML. Available at: http://www.esmith.org/docs/manual/5.1/ primary author/editor Dan York.

• August 2001 - First print edition of the SME Server user's manual published by Contribs.org. Also published online in HTML and DocBook XML/SGML. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.0/ primary author/editor Dan York.

• February 13, 2001 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.1 published online in HTML and DocBook SGML by e-smith, inc. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/ primary author/editor Dan York.

• December 4, 2000 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.0 published online in HTML and DocBook SGML by e-smith, inc. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.0/

• July 2000 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.0 published in print form by e-smith, inc. primary author/editor Ross Laver using StarOffice 5.1.

• November 1999 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 3.1 published in print form by e-smith, inc. primary author Kim Morrison using StarOffice 5.1.

1.1.3. Endorsements

This is the official documentation for SME Server and is endorsed by contribs.org

1.1.4. Acknowledgements

Contribs.org wishes to thank all of the developers in the open source community who continue to help us make our product better.

We also thank Craig Foster and Paul Miller for their help in documenting Macintosh connectivity.