SAMBA
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION COMPONENTS AVAILABILITY VERSION CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTORS AUTHOR
SAMBA - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
Samba
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),
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
The smbpasswd command is a tool for changing !LanMan? and Windows NT password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
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
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
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
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 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.
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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