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SAMBA
!!!SAMBA
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMPONENTS
AVAILABILITY
VERSION
CONTRIBUTIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
AUTHOR
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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.conf''configuration 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__


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
!!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


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
!!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


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
full list, look at
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log


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/
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