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6 .TH "SAMBA" "7" "28 January 2002" "" ""
8 SAMBA \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
14 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
15 that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
16 as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
17 also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS),
18 LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.
22 daemon provides the file and print services to
23 SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
24 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
25 for this daemon is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
29 daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
30 support. The configuration file for this daemon
31 is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
35 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
36 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
37 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
38 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
39 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).
43 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
44 \fIsmb.conf\fRconfiguration file.
48 utility supports testing printer names defined
49 in your \fIprintcap>\fR file used
54 tool provides access to information about the
55 current connections to \fBsmbd\fR.
59 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
62 \fBmake_smbcodepage\fR
63 The \fBmake_smbcodepage\fR
64 utility provides a means of creating SMB code page
65 definition files for your \fBsmbd\fR server.
69 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
70 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
73 The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
74 component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
75 recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
76 and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
77 manual pages aren't clear enough then please send a patch or
78 bug report to samba@samba.org <URL:mailto:samba@samba.org>
81 The Samba software suite is licensed under the
82 GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
83 have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
84 encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
85 please obey the terms of this license.
87 The latest version of the Samba suite can be
88 obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
89 directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
90 mirror sites worldwide.
92 You may also find useful information about Samba
93 on the newsgroup comp.protocol.smb <URL:news:comp.protocols.smb> and the Samba mailing
94 list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
95 the README file that comes with Samba.
97 If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape
98 or Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
99 including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
100 http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
103 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the
107 If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
108 then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
109 http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
111 If you have patches to submit or bugs to report
112 then you may mail them directly to samba-patches@samba.org.
113 Note, however, that due to the enormous popularity of this
114 package the Samba Team may take some time to respond to mail. We
115 prefer patches in \fBdiff -u\fR format.
118 Contributors to the project are now too numerous
119 to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
120 users. To see a full list, look at ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log>
121 for the pre-CVS changes and at ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log>
122 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
123 source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
124 Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
126 In addition, several commercial organizations now help
127 fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
128 the Samba Web pages at http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html.
131 The original Samba software and related utilities
132 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
133 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
134 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
136 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
137 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
138 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
139 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
140 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
141 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter