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6 .TH "SAMBA" "7" "04 March 2003" "" ""
8 SAMBA \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
15 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
16 that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
17 as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
18 also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a
19 more thorough description, see http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/ <URL:http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
24 daemon provides the file and print services to
25 SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
26 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
27 for this daemon is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
31 daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
32 support. The configuration file for this daemon
33 is described in \fIsmb.conf\fR
37 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
38 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
39 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
40 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
41 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).
45 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
46 \fIsmb.conf\fRconfiguration file.
50 utility supports testing printer names defined
51 in your \fIprintcap\fR file used
56 tool provides access to information about the
57 current connections to \fBsmbd\fR.
61 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
64 \fBmake_smbcodepage\fR
65 The \fBmake_smbcodepage\fR
66 utility provides a means of creating SMB code page
67 definition files for your \fBsmbd\fR server.
71 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
72 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
75 The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
76 component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
77 recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
78 and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
79 manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
80 http://devel.samba.org <URL:http://devel.samba.org/>
81 for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.
83 If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
84 http://www.samba.org/ <URL:http://samba.org/> and
85 explore the many option available to you.
88 The Samba software suite is licensed under the
89 GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
90 have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
91 encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
92 please obey the terms of this license.
94 The latest version of the Samba suite can be
95 obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
96 directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
97 mirror sites worldwide.
99 You may also find useful information about Samba
100 on the newsgroup comp.protocol.smb <URL:news:comp.protocols.smb> and the Samba mailing
101 list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
102 the README file that comes with Samba.
104 If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape
105 or Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
106 including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
107 http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
110 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the
114 If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
115 then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
116 http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
118 If you have patches to submit, visit
119 http://devel.samba.org/ <URL:http://devel.samba.org/>
120 for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in
121 \fBdiff -u\fR format.
124 Contributors to the project are now too numerous
125 to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
126 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>
127 for the pre-CVS changes and at ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log>
128 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
129 source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
130 Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
132 In addition, several commercial organizations now help
133 fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
134 the Samba Web pages at http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html
137 The original Samba software and related utilities
138 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
139 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
140 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
142 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
143 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
144 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
145 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
146 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
147 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter