samba

SAMBA(7)                                                              SAMBA(7)



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 Work-
              groups or LanManager. The configuration file for this daemon  is
              described in smb.conf

       nmbd   The  nmbd  daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing sup-
              port. 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 cur-
              rent 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
       <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 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 unman-
       ageable 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



                               19 November 2002                       SAMBA(7)