1 .TH "Samba " "7" "23 Oct 1998" "Samba" ""
4 Samba \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
11 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
12 the Server Message Block(commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for
13 UNIX systems\&. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the
14 Common Internet File System (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol\&.
18 The Samba suite is made up of several components\&. Each component is
19 described in a separate manual page\&. It is strongly recommended that
20 you read the documentation that comes with Samba and the manual pages
21 of those components that you use\&. If the manual pages aren\'t clear
22 enough then please send a patch or bug report
23 to \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&.
30 (8) daemon provides the file and print services to SMB
31 clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups or
32 LanManager\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
33 \fBsmb\&.conf (5)\fP\&.
39 (8) daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
40 support\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
41 \fBsmb\&.conf (5)\fP\&.
47 (1) program implements a simple ftp-like
48 client\&. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
49 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box
50 to print to a printer attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running
57 (1) program is a client that can \'talk\' to an
58 SMB/CIFS MSRPC server\&. Operations include things like managing a SAM
59 Database (users, groups and aliases) in the same way as the Windows NT
60 programs \fBUser Manager for Domains\fP and \fBServer Manager for Domains\fP;
61 managing a remote registry in the same way as the Windows NT programs
62 \fBREGEDT32\&.EXE\fP and \fBREGEDIT\&.EXE\fP; viewing a remote event log (same
63 as \fBEVENTVWR\&.EXE\fP)\&.
69 (1)\fP utility allows you to test your \fBsmb\&.conf
70 (5)\fP configuration file\&.
76 (1)\fP utility allows you to test the printers defined
77 in your printcap file\&.
83 (1) utility allows you list current connections to the
84 \fBsmbd (8)\fP server\&.
90 \fBnmblookup (1)\fP utility allows NetBIOS name
91 queries to be made from the UNIX machine\&.
93 .IP "\fBmake_smbcodepage\fP"
97 \fBmake_smbcodepage (1)\fP utility allows
98 you to create SMB code page definition files for your \fBsmbd
101 .IP "\fBsmbpasswd\fP"
105 (8)\fP utility allows you to change SMB encrypted
106 passwords on Samba and Windows NT(tm) servers\&.
111 The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public License
112 (GPL)\&. A copy of that license should have come with the package in the
113 file COPYING\&. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba
114 suite, but please obey the terms of this license\&.
116 The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via anonymous
117 ftp from samba\&.org in the directory pub/samba/\&. It is
118 also available on several mirror sites worldwide\&.
120 You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup
121 comp\&.protocols\&.smb and the Samba mailing list\&. Details on how to join
122 the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba\&.
124 If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape or Mosaic) then
125 you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues
126 of the Samba mailing list, at
127 http://samba\&.org/samba/\&.
131 This man page is correct for version 2\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
135 If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you
136 join the Samba mailing list at \fIsamba@samba\&.org\fP\&. See the
138 http://samba\&.org/listproc
139 for details on how to do this\&.
141 If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them
142 directly to \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&. Note, however, that due to
143 the enormous popularity of this package the Samba Team may take some
144 time to respond to mail\&. We prefer patches in \fIdiff -u\fP format\&.
148 Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention here but
149 all deserve the thanks of all Samba users\&. To see a full list, look at
150 ftp://samba\&.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log
151 for the pre-CVS changes and at
152 ftp://samba\&.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs\&.log
153 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS\&. CVS is the Open Source source
154 code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba\&. The
155 project would have been unmanageable without it\&.
157 In addition, several commercial organizations now help fund the Samba
158 Team with money and equipment\&. For details see the Samba Web pages at
159 http://samba\&.org/samba/samba-thanks\&.html\&.
163 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
164 Andrew Tridgell \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&. Samba is now developed
165 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
166 Linux kernel is developed\&.
168 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer\&. The man page
169 sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
170 Source software, available at
171 \fBftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/\fP)
172 and updated for the Samba2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&.
173 \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&.