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
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.
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.
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
