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author | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2002-10-01 17:02:36 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2002-10-01 17:02:36 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 index 875de31f42..d5662dbdb4 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ -.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec -.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at: -.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/> +.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man +.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: +.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "NMBD" "8" "08 May 2002" "" "" +.TH "NMBD" "8" "01 October 2002" "" "" .SH NAME nmbd \- NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS over IP naming services to clients .SH SYNOPSIS -.sp -\fBnmbd\fR [ \fB-D\fR ] [ \fB-a\fR ] [ \fB-i\fR ] [ \fB-o\fR ] [ \fB-P\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-V\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-H <lmhosts file>\fR ] [ \fB-l <log directory>\fR ] [ \fB-n <primary netbios name>\fR ] [ \fB-p <port number>\fR ] [ \fB-s <configuration file>\fR ] + +\fBnmbd\fR [ \fB-D\fR ] [ \fB-a\fR ] [ \fB-i\fR ] [ \fB-o\fR ] [ \fB-P\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-V\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-H <lmhosts file>\fR ] [ \fB-l <log directory>\fR ] [ \fB-n <primary netbios name>\fR ] [ \fB-p <port number>\fR ] [ \fB-s <configuration file>\fR ] + .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This program is part of the Samba suite. @@ -27,13 +28,13 @@ IP number a specified host is using. Amongst other services, \fBnmbd\fR will listen for such requests, and if its own NetBIOS name is specified it will respond with the IP number of the host it -is running on. Its "own NetBIOS name" is by +is running on. Its "own NetBIOS name" is by default the primary DNS name of the host it is running on, but this can be overridden with the \fB-n\fR option (see OPTIONS below). Thus \fBnmbd\fR will reply to broadcast queries for its own name(s). Additional names for \fBnmbd\fR to respond on can be set -via parameters in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fRconfiguration file. +via parameters in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR configuration file. .PP \fBnmbd\fR can also be used as a WINS (Windows Internet Name Server) server. What this basically means @@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ replying to queries from clients for these names. .PP In addition, \fBnmbd\fR can act as a WINS proxy, relaying broadcast queries from clients that do -not understand how to talk the WINS protocol to a WIN +not understand how to talk the WINS protocol to a WINS server. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP @@ -58,19 +59,19 @@ meta-daemon, although this is not recommended. .TP \fB-a\fR If this parameter is specified, each new -connection will append log messages to the log file. +connection will append log messages to the log file. This is the default. .TP \fB-i\fR If this parameter is specified it causes the server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if the server is executed on the command line of a shell. Setting this -parameter negates the implicit deamon mode when run from the +parameter negates the implicit daemon mode when run from the command line. .TP \fB-o\fR If this parameter is specified, the -log files will be overwritten when opened. By default, +log files will be overwritten when opened. By default, \fBsmbd\fR will append entries to the log files. .TP @@ -79,10 +80,10 @@ Prints the help information (usage) for \fBnmbd\fR. .TP \fB-H <filename>\fR -NetBIOS lmhosts file. The lmhosts +NetBIOS lmhosts file. The lmhosts file is a list of NetBIOS names to IP addresses that is loaded by the nmbd server and used via the name -resolution mechanism name resolve order +resolution mechanism name resolve order described in \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR to resolve any NetBIOS name queries needed by the server. Note that the contents of this file are \fBNOT\fR used by \fBnmbd\fR to answer any name queries. @@ -93,8 +94,9 @@ The default path to this file is compiled into Samba as part of the build process. Common defaults are \fI/usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts\fR, \fI/usr/samba/lib/lmhosts\fR or -\fI/etc/lmhosts\fR. See the \fIlmhosts(5)\fRman page for details on the -contents of this file. +\fI/etc/lmhosts\fR. See the +\fIlmhosts(5)\fR +man page for details on the contents of this file. .TP \fB-V\fR Prints the version number for @@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ Prints the version number for .TP \fB-d <debug level>\fR debuglevel is an integer -from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is +from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero. The higher this value, the more detail will @@ -119,24 +121,24 @@ and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic. Note that specifying this parameter here will override -the log level -parameter in the \fI smb.conf\fRfile. +the log level +parameter in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR file. .TP \fB-l <log directory>\fR The -l parameter specifies a directory into which the "log.nmbd" log file will be created -for operational data from the running -\fBnmbd\fR server. The default log directory is compiled into Samba -as part of the build process. Common defaults are \fI /usr/local/samba/var/log.nmb\fR, \fI /usr/samba/var/log.nmb\fR or -\fI/var/log/log.nmb\fR. \fBBeware:\fR +for operational data from the running \fBnmbd\fR +server. The default log directory is compiled into Samba +as part of the build process. Common defaults are \fI /usr/local/samba/var/log.nmb\fR, \fI /usr/samba/var/log.nmb\fR or +\fI/var/log/log.nmb\fR. \fBBeware:\fR If the directory specified does not exist, \fBnmbd\fR will log to the default debug log location defined at compile time. .TP \fB-n <primary NetBIOS name>\fR This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This is identical -to setting the NetBIOS nameparameter in the -\fIsmb.conf\fRfile. However, a command +to setting the NetBIOS name parameter in the +\fIsmb.conf\fR file. However, a command line setting will take precedence over settings in \fIsmb.conf\fR. .TP @@ -149,18 +151,18 @@ won't need help! .TP \fB-s <configuration file>\fR The default configuration file name -is set at build time, typically as \fI /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf\fR, but +is set at build time, typically as \fI /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf\fR, but this may be changed when Samba is autoconfigured. The file specified contains the configuration details -required by the server. See \fIsmb.conf(5)\fRfor more information. +required by the server. See \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR for more information. .SH "FILES" .TP \fB\fI/etc/inetd.conf\fB\fR If the server is to be run by the \fBinetd\fR meta-daemon, this file must contain suitable startup information for the -meta-daemon. See the UNIX_INSTALL.htmldocument +meta-daemon. See the UNIX_INSTALL.html document for details. .TP \fB\fI/etc/rc\fB\fR @@ -169,7 +171,7 @@ system uses). If running the server as a daemon at startup, this file will need to contain an appropriate startup -sequence for the server. See the UNIX_INSTALL.htmldocument +sequence for the server. See the UNIX_INSTALL.html document for details. .TP \fB\fI/etc/services\fB\fR @@ -195,11 +197,11 @@ will store the WINS database in the file \fIwins.dat\fR in the \fIvar/locks\fR directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. -If \fBnmbd\fR is acting as a \fB browse master\fR (see the local master +If \fBnmbd\fR is acting as a \fB browse master\fR (see the local master parameter in the \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR man page, \fBnmbd\fR will store the browsing database in the file \fIbrowse.dat -\fRin the \fIvar/locks\fR directory +\fR in the \fIvar/locks\fR directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. .SH "SIGNALS" .PP @@ -211,7 +213,7 @@ a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own. .PP \fBnmbd\fR will accept SIGHUP, which will cause it to dump out its namelists into the file \fInamelist.debug -\fRin the \fI/usr/local/samba/var/locks\fR +\fR in the \fI/usr/local/samba/var/locks\fR directory (or the \fIvar/locks\fR directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself). This will also cause \fBnmbd\fR to dump out its server database in @@ -219,7 +221,7 @@ the \fIlog.nmb\fR file. .PP The debug log level of nmbd may be raised or lowered using \fBsmbcontrol(1)\fR -(SIGUSR[1|2] signals are no longer used in Samba 2.2). This is + (SIGUSR[1|2] signals are no longer used in Samba 2.2). This is to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running at a normally low log level. .SH "VERSION" @@ -228,10 +230,10 @@ This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP -\fBinetd(8)\fR, \fBsmbd(8)\fR, +\fBinetd(8)\fR, \fBsmbd(8)\fR \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR -, \fBsmbclient(1) -\fR, and the Internet RFC's + \fBsmbclient(1) +\fR and the Internet RFC's \fIrfc1001.txt\fR, \fIrfc1002.txt\fR. In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available as a link from the Web page @@ -247,5 +249,5 @@ 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 +release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter |