TESTPARM(1) User Commands TESTPARM(1)NAMEtestparm - check an smb.conf configuration file for internal
correctness
SYNOPSIStestparm [-s] [-h] [-v] [-t <encoding>] {config filename}
[hostname hostIP]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
testparm is a very simple test program to check an smbd(1M)
configuration file for internal correctness. If this program reports no
problems, you can use the configuration file with confidence that smbd
will successfully load the configuration file.
Note that this is NOT a guarantee that the services specified in the
configuration file will be available or will operate as expected.
If the optional host name and host IP address are specified on the
command line, this test program will run through the service entries
reporting whether the specified host has access to each service.
If testparm finds an error in the smb.conf file it returns an exit code
of 1 to the calling program, else it returns an exit code of 0. This
allows shell scripts to test the output from testparm.
OPTIONS-s
Without this option, testparm will prompt for a carriage return
after printing the service names and before dumping the service
definitions.
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-V|--version
Prints the program version number.
-v
If this option is specified, testparm will also output all options
that were not used in smb.conf(4) and are thus set to their
defaults.
-t encoding
Output data in specified encoding.
--parameter-name parametername
Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the view is
limited by default to the global section. It is also possible to
dump a parametrical option. Therfore the option has to be separated
by a colon from the parametername.
--section-name sectionname
Dumps the named section.
configfilename
This is the name of the configuration file to check. If this
parameter is not present then the default smb.conf(4) file will be
checked.
hostname
If this parameter and the following are specified, then testparm
will examine the hosts allow and hosts deny parameters in the
smb.conf(4) file to determine if the hostname with this IP address
would be allowed access to the smbd server. If this parameter is
supplied, the hostIP parameter must also be supplied.
hostIP
This is the IP address of the host specified in the previous
parameter. This address must be supplied if the hostname parameter
is supplied.
FILESsmb.conf(4)
This is usually the name of the configuration file used by
smbd(1M).
DIAGNOSTICS
The program will issue a message saying whether the configuration file
loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by errors and warnings
if the file did not load. If the file was loaded OK, the program then
dumps all known service details to stdout.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSOsmb.conf(4), smbd(1M)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/) and
updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │ SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbac, SUNWsmbau │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ External │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
NOTES
Source code for Samba is available in the SUNWsmbaS package.
Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be seen from
the following example:
$ svcs samba wins winbind swat
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/samba:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/winbind:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/wins:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/swat:default
where the services are:
"samba"
runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions
"wins"
runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)
"winbind"
runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap
"swat"
Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing access to
browser-based Samba administration interface and on-line
documentation. The service runs on software loopback network
interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening "http://localhost:901/" in
browser will access the SWAT service on local machine.
Please note: SWAT uses HTTP Basic Authentication scheme where user name
and passwords are sent over the network in clear text. In the SWAT case
the user name is root. Transferring such sensitive data is advisable
only on the software loopback network interface or over secure
networks.
Samba 3.6 04/10/2012 TESTPARM(1)
