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5 <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
6 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
11 <refname>SAMBA</refname>
12 <refpurpose>A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX</refpurpose>
16 <cmdsynopsis><command>Samba</command></cmdsynopsis>
20 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
22 <para>The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
23 that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
24 as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
25 also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a
26 more thorough description, see <ulink url="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">
27 http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/</ulink>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
28 protocol in nmbd.</para>
32 <term><command>smbd</command></term>
33 <listitem><para>The <command>smbd </command>
34 daemon provides the file and print services to
35 SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
36 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
37 for this daemon is described in <filename>smb.conf</filename>
42 <term><command>nmbd</command></term>
43 <listitem><para>The <command>nmbd</command>
44 daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
45 support. The configuration file for this daemon
46 is described in <filename>smb.conf</filename></para>
51 <term><command>smbclient</command></term>
52 <listitem><para>The <command>smbclient</command>
53 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
54 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
55 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
56 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
57 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).</para>
62 <term><command>testparm</command></term>
63 <listitem><para>The <command>testparm</command>
64 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
65 <filename>smb.conf</filename>configuration file.</para>
70 <term><command>testprns</command></term>
71 <listitem><para>The <command>testprns</command>
72 utility supports testing printer names defined
73 in your <filename>printcap</filename> file used
79 <term><command>smbstatus</command></term>
80 <listitem><para>The <command>smbstatus</command>
81 tool provides access to information about the
82 current connections to <command>smbd</command>.</para>
87 <term><command>nmblookup</command></term>
88 <listitem><para>The <command>nmblookup</command>
89 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
90 from a UNIX host.</para>
95 <term><command>make_smbcodepage</command></term>
96 <listitem><para>The <command>make_smbcodepage</command>
97 utility provides a means of creating SMB code page
98 definition files for your <command>smbd</command> server.</para>
103 <term><command>smbpasswd</command></term>
104 <listitem><para>The <command>smbpasswd</command>
105 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
106 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.</para>
114 <title>COMPONENTS</title>
116 <para>The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
117 component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
118 recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
119 and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
120 manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
121 <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org</ulink>
122 for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.</para>
124 <para>If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
125 <ulink url="http://samba.org/">http://www.samba.org/</ulink> and
126 explore the many option available to you.
131 <title>AVAILABILITY</title>
133 <para>The Samba software suite is licensed under the
134 GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
135 have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
136 encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
137 please obey the terms of this license.</para>
139 <para>The latest version of the Samba suite can be
140 obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
141 directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
142 mirror sites worldwide.</para>
144 <para>You may also find useful information about Samba
145 on the newsgroup <ulink url="news:comp.protocols.smb">
146 comp.protocol.smb</ulink> and the Samba mailing
147 list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
148 the README file that comes with Samba.</para>
150 <para>If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape
151 or Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
152 including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
153 <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.</para>
157 <title>VERSION</title>
159 <para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the
164 <title>CONTRIBUTIONS</title>
166 <para>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
167 then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
168 <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.
171 <para>If you have patches to submit, visit
172 <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org/</ulink>
173 for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in
174 <command>diff -u</command> format.</para>
178 <title>CONTRIBUTORS</title>
180 <para>Contributors to the project are now too numerous
181 to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
182 users. To see a full list, look at <ulink
183 url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">
184 ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log</ulink>
185 for the pre-CVS changes and at <ulink
186 url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log">
187 ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log</ulink>
188 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
189 source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
190 Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.</para>
192 <para>In addition, several commercial organizations now help
193 fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
194 the Samba Web pages at <ulink
195 url="http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html">
196 http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html</ulink>.</para>
200 <title>AUTHOR</title>
202 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
203 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
204 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
205 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
207 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
208 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
209 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
210 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
211 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
212 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
213 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>