testparm [-s] [configfilename] [hostname hostIP]
This program is part of the Samba suite.
testparm is a very simple test program to check an
smbd configuration file for internal
correctness. If this program reports no problems, you can use the
configuration file with confidence that smbd
will successfully load the configuration file.
Note that this is NOT a guarantee that the services specified in the
configuration file will be available or will operate as expected.
If the optional host name and host IP address are specified on the
command line, this test program will run through the service entries
reporting whether the specified host has access to each service.
smb.conf. This is usually the name of the
configuration file used by smbd.
The program will issue a message saying whether the configuration file
loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by errors and warnings
if the file did not load. If the file was loaded OK, the program then
dumps all known service details to stdout.
This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite.
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. Samba is now developed
by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
Source software, available at
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/)
and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison.
samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
See samba (7) to find out how to get a full
list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports,
comments etc.