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+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
+<refentry id="testparm">
+
+<refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+ <refname>testparm</refname>
+ <refpurpose>check an smb.conf configuration file for
+ internal correctness</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>testparm</command>
+ <arg choice="opt">-s</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-L &lt;servername&gt;</arg>
+ <arg choice="req">config filename</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">hostname hostIP</arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>This tool is part of the <ulink url="samba.7.html">
+ Samba</ulink> suite.</para>
+
+ <para><command>testparm</command> is a very simple test program
+ to check an <command>smbd</command> configuration file for
+ internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
+ can use the configuration file with confidence that <command>smbd
+ </command> will successfully load the configuration file.</para>
+
+
+ <para>Note that this is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> a guarantee that
+ the services specified in the configuration file will be
+ available or will operate as expected. </para>
+
+ <para>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. </para>
+
+ <para>If <command>testparm</command> finds an error in the <filename>
+ smb.conf</filename> 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 <command>testparm</command>.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-s</term>
+ <listitem><para>Without this option, <command>testparm</command>
+ will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service
+ names and before dumping the service definitions.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-h</term>
+ <listitem><para>Print usage message </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-L servername</term>
+ <listitem><para>Sets the value of the %L macro to <replaceable>servername</replaceable>.
+ This is useful for testing include files specified with the
+ %L macro. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>configfilename</term>
+ <listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
+ to check. If this parameter is not present then the
+ default <filename>smb.conf</filename> file will be checked.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>hostname</term>
+ <listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
+ specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
+ allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
+ parameters in the <filename>smb.conf</filename> file to
+ determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
+ allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
+ this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
+ be supplied.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>hostIP</term>
+ <listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
+ in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
+ if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>FILES</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>smb.conf</filename></term>
+ <listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
+ file used by <command>smbd</command>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
+
+ <para>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. </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>VERSION</title>
+
+ <para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
+ the Samba suite.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para><ulink url="smb.conf.5.html"><filename>smb.conf(5)</filename></ulink>,
+ <ulink url="smbd.8.html"><command>smbd(8)</command></ulink>
+ </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+
+ <para>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
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
+ ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
+ release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+ Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+