A S or G means that the specified address is a broadcast address of a
network that you want people to be able to browse you from. Nmbd will
search for a master browser in that domain and will send host
-announcements to that machine, informing it that the specifed somain
+announcements to that machine, informing it that the specified domain
is available.
A M means that this name is the default netbios name for this
The log files generated are never removed by the server.
.RE
-.RE
.B -n
.I netbios name
mapping of service name (eg., netbios-ns) to service port (eg., 137) and
protocol type (eg., udp). See the section "INSTALLATION" below.
.RE
-.RE
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Not applicable.
of those components that you use. If the manual pages aren't clear
enough then please send me a patch!
-The smbd(8) daemon provides the file and print services to SMB clents,
+The smbd(8) daemon provides the file and print services to SMB clients,
such as Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or LanManager. The
configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf(5).
The main author of the Samba suite is Andrew Tridgell. He may be
contacted via e-mail at samba-bugs@anu.edu.au.
-There have also been an enourmous number of contributors to Samba from
+There have also been an enormous number of contributors to Samba from
all over the world. A partial list of these contributors is included
in the CREDITS section below. The list is, however, badly out of
date. More up to date info may be obtained from the change-log that
If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them
directly to samba-bugs@anu.edu.au. Note, however, that due to the
-enourmous popularity of this package I may take some time to repond to
+enormous popularity of this package I may take some time to repond to
mail. I prefer patches in "diff -u" format.
.SH CREDITS
Any line beginning with a semicolon is ignored, as are lines containing
only whitespace.
-Any line ending in a \\ is "continued" on the next line in the
+Any line ending in a \e is "continued" on the next line in the
customary unix fashion.
The values following the equals sign in parameters are all either a string
An alias, by the way, is defined as any component of the first entry of a
printcap record. Records are separated by newlines, components (if there are
more than one) are separated by vertical bar symbols ("|").
+.RE
.SH PARAMETERS
Parameters define the specific attributes of services.
descriptions the [homes] and [printers] sections will be considered normal.
The letter 'G' in parentheses indicates that a parameter is specific to the
[global] section. The letter 'S' indicates that a parameter can be
-specified in a secvice specific section. Note that all S parameters
+specified in a service specific section. Note that all S parameters
can also be specified in the [global] section - in which case they
will define the default behaviour for all services.
username john.
These substitutions are mostly noted in the descriptions below, but
-there are some general substitions which apply whenever they might be
+there are some general substitutions which apply whenever they might be
relevant. These are:
%S = the name of the current service, if any
does what you expect.
.B Default:
- none (ie., all hosts permitted access)
+ none (i.e., all hosts permitted access)
.B Example:
allow hosts = 150.203.5. myhost.mynet.edu.au
override this one. Where the lists conflict, the 'allow' list takes precedence.
.B Default:
- none (ie., no hosts specifically excluded)
+ none (i.e., no hosts specifically excluded)
.B Example:
deny hosts = 150.203.4. badhost.mynet.edu.au
of directories that the server should always show as empty.
Note that Samba can be very fussy about the exact format of the "dont
-descend" entries. For example you ma need "./proc" instead of just
+descend" entries. For example you may need "./proc" instead of just
"/proc". Experimentation is the best policy :-)
.B Default:
- none (ie., all directories are OK to descend)
+ none (i.e., all directories are OK to descend)
.B Example:
dont descend = /proc,/dev
.SS encrypt passwords (G)
This boolean controls whether encrypted passwords will be negotiated
-with the cient. Note that this option has no effect if you haven't
+with the client. Note that this option has no effect if you haven't
compiled in the necessary des libraries and encryption code. It
defaults to no.
.B deny hosts.
.SS group (S)
-This is an alias for "force group" and is only kept for compatability
+This is an alias for "force group" and is only kept for compatibility
with old versions of Samba. It may be removed in future versions.
.SS hosts equiv (G)
The above example allows filenames to have the swedish characters in
them.
+NOTE: It is actually quite difficult to correctly produce a "valid
+chars" line for a particular system. To automate the process
+tino@augsburg.net has written a package called "validchars" which will
+automatically produce a complete "valid chars" line for a given client
+system. Look in the examples subdirectory for this package.
+
+
.SS valid users (S)
This is a list of users that should be allowed to login to this
service. A name starting with @ is interpreted as a unix group.