testparm is a very simple test program
to check an smbd 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
Print usage message
-L servername
Sets the value of the %L macro to servername.
This is useful for testing include files specified with the
%L macro.
configfilename
This is the name of the configuration file
to check. If this parameter is not present then the
default smb.conf 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 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.
FILES
smb.conf
This is usually the name of the configuration
file used by smbd.
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 2.2 of
the Samba suite.
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
