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NAME
SAMBA - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
SYNOPSIS
Samba
DESCRIPTION
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that
implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as
SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS),
LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.
smbd The smbd daemon provides the file and print services to
SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
for this daemon is described in smb.conf
nmbd The nmbd daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and
browsing support. The configuration file for this
daemon is described in smb.conf
smbclient
The smbclient program implements a simple ftp-like
client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on
other compatible servers (such as Windows NT), and can
also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer
attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running
Windows NT).
testparm
The testparm utility is a simple syntax checker for
Samba's smb.confconfiguration file.
testprns
The testprns utility supports testing printer names
defined in your printcap> file used by Samba.
smbstatus
The smbstatus tool provides access to information about
the current connections to smbd.
nmblookup
The nmblookup tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be
made from a UNIX host.
make_smbcodepage
The make_smbcodepage utility provides a means of
creating SMB code page definition files for your smbd
server.
smbpasswd
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The smbpasswd command is a tool for changing LanMan and
Windows NT password hashes on Samba and Windows NT
servers.
COMPONENTS
The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
component is described in a separate manual page. It is
strongly recommended that you read the documentation that
comes with Samba and the manual pages of those components
that you use. If the manual pages aren't clear enough then
please send a patch or bug report to samba@samba.org
<URL:mailto:samba@samba.org>
AVAILABILITY
The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public
License(GPL). A copy of that license should have come with
the package in the file COPYING. You are encouraged to
distribute copies of the Samba suite, but please obey the
terms of this license.
The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via
anonymous ftp from samba.org in the directory pub/samba/. It
is also available on several mirror sites worldwide.
You may also find useful information about Samba on the
newsgroup comp.protocol.smb <URL:news:comp.protocols.smb>
and the Samba mailing list. Details on how to join the
mailing list are given in the README file that comes with
Samba.
If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape or
Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
CONTRIBUTIONS
If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I
suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.
If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may
mail them directly to samba-patches@samba.org. Note,
however, that due to the enormous popularity of this package
the Samba Team may take some time to respond to mail. We
prefer patches in diff -u format.
CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention
here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba users. To see a
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full list, look at ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-
log <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log> for the
pre-CVS changes and at
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log
<URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log> for the
contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
In addition, several commercial organizations now help fund
the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see the
Samba Web pages at http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
created by Andrew Tridgell. 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/
<URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the
Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
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