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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html deleted file mode 100644 index 72454f4b60..0000000000 --- a/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,147 +0,0 @@ -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>nmbd</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="nmbd.8"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>nmbd — NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS - over IP naming services to clients</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">nmbd</tt> [-D] [-F] [-S] [-a] [-i] [-o] [-h] [-V] [-d <debug level>] [-H <lmhosts file>] [-l <log directory>] [-n <primary netbios name>] [-p <port number>] [-s <configuration file>]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This program is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><b class="command">nmbd</b> is a server that understands - and can reply to NetBIOS over IP name service requests, like - those produced by SMB/CIFS clients such as Windows 95/98/ME, - Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and LanManager clients. It also - participates in the browsing protocols which make up the - Windows "Network Neighborhood" view.</p><p>SMB/CIFS clients, when they start up, may wish to - locate an SMB/CIFS server. That is, they wish to know what - IP number a specified host is using.</p><p>Amongst other services, <b class="command">nmbd</b> 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 - default the primary DNS name of the host it is running on, - but this can be overridden with the <span class="emphasis"><em>-n</em></span> - option (see OPTIONS below). Thus <b class="command">nmbd</b> will - reply to broadcast queries for its own name(s). Additional - names for <b class="command">nmbd</b> to respond on can be set - via parameters in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> configuration file.</p><p><b class="command">nmbd</b> can also be used as a WINS - (Windows Internet Name Server) server. What this basically means - is that it will act as a WINS database server, creating a - database from name registration requests that it receives and - replying to queries from clients for these names.</p><p>In addition, <b class="command">nmbd</b> can act as a WINS - proxy, relaying broadcast queries from clients that do - not understand how to talk the WINS protocol to a WINS - server.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-D</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, this parameter causes - <b class="command">nmbd</b> to operate as a daemon. That is, - it detaches itself and runs in the background, fielding - requests on the appropriate port. By default, <b class="command">nmbd</b> - will operate as a daemon if launched from a command shell. - nmbd can also be operated from the <b class="command">inetd</b> - meta-daemon, although this is not recommended. - </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-F</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, this parameter causes - the main <b class="command">nmbd</b> process to not daemonize, - i.e. double-fork and disassociate with the terminal. - Child processes are still created as normal to service - each connection request, but the main process does not - exit. This operation mode is suitable for running - <b class="command">nmbd</b> under process supervisors such - as <b class="command">supervise</b> and <b class="command">svscan</b> - from Daniel J. Bernstein's <b class="command">daemontools</b> - package, or the AIX process monitor. - </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, this parameter causes - <b class="command">nmbd</b> to log to standard output rather - than a file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i</span></dt><dd><p>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 daemon mode when run from the - command line. <b class="command">nmbd</b> also logs to standard - output, as if the <tt class="constant">-S</tt> parameter had been - given. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. -</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-H <filename></span></dt><dd><p>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 <a class="indexterm" name="id2796624"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>name resolve order</tt></i> described in <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> to resolve any - NetBIOS name queries needed by the server. Note - that the contents of this file are <span class="emphasis"><em>NOT</em></span> - used by <b class="command">nmbd</b> to answer any name queries. - Adding a line to this file affects name NetBIOS resolution - from this host <span class="emphasis"><em>ONLY</em></span>.</p><p>The default path to this file is compiled into - Samba as part of the build process. Common defaults - are <tt class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts</tt>, - <tt class="filename">/usr/samba/lib/lmhosts</tt> or - <tt class="filename">/etc/samba/lmhosts</tt>. See the <a href="lmhosts.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lmhosts</span>(5)</span></a> man page for details on the contents of this file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number. -</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the -configuration details required by the server. The -information in this file includes server-specific -information such as what printcap file to use, as well -as descriptions of all the services that the server is -to provide. See <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> for more information. -The default configuration file name is determined at -compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debug=debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p><i class="replaceable"><tt>debuglevel</tt></i> is an integer -from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is -not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be -logged to the log files about the activities of the -server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious -warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for -day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of -information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable -amounts of log data, and should only be used when -investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for -use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log -data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will -override the <a class="indexterm" name="id2799060"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i> parameter -in the <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logbasename</span></dt><dd><p>File name for log/debug files. The extension -<tt class="constant">".client"</tt> will be appended. The log file is -never removed by the client. -</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p <UDP port number></span></dt><dd><p>UDP port number is a positive integer value. - This option changes the default UDP port number (normally 137) - that <b class="command">nmbd</b> responds to name queries on. Don't - use this option unless you are an expert, in which case you - won't need help!</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>FILES</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><tt class="filename">/etc/inetd.conf</tt></span></dt><dd><p>If the server is to be run by the - <b class="command">inetd</b> meta-daemon, this file - must contain suitable startup information for the - meta-daemon. - </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="filename">/etc/rc</tt></span></dt><dd><p>or whatever initialization script your - system uses).</p><p>If running the server as a daemon at startup, - this file will need to contain an appropriate startup - sequence for the server.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="filename">/etc/services</tt></span></dt><dd><p>If running the server via the - meta-daemon <b class="command">inetd</b>, this file - must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn) - to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp). - </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</tt></span></dt><dd><p>This is the default location of - the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> server - configuration file. Other common places that systems - install this file are <tt class="filename">/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</tt> - and <tt class="filename">/etc/samba/smb.conf</tt>.</p><p>When run as a WINS server (see the - <a class="indexterm" name="id2799269"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>wins support</tt></i> - parameter in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> man page), - <b class="command">nmbd</b> - will store the WINS database in the file <tt class="filename">wins.dat</tt> - in the <tt class="filename">var/locks</tt> directory configured under - wherever Samba was configured to install itself.</p><p>If <b class="command">nmbd</b> is acting as a <span class="emphasis"><em> - browse master</em></span> (see the <a class="indexterm" name="id2799331"></a><i class="parameter"><tt>local master</tt></i> - parameter in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> man page, <b class="command">nmbd</b> - will store the browsing database in the file <tt class="filename">browse.dat - </tt> in the <tt class="filename">var/locks</tt> directory - configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. - </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SIGNALS</h2><p>To shut down an <b class="command">nmbd</b> process it is recommended - that SIGKILL (-9) <span class="emphasis"><em>NOT</em></span> be used, except as a last - resort, as this may leave the name database in an inconsistent state. - The correct way to terminate <b class="command">nmbd</b> is to send it - a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own.</p><p><b class="command">nmbd</b> will accept SIGHUP, which will cause - it to dump out its namelists into the file <tt class="filename">namelist.debug - </tt> in the <tt class="filename">/usr/local/samba/var/locks</tt> - directory (or the <tt class="filename">var/locks</tt> directory configured - under wherever Samba was configured to install itself). This will also - cause <b class="command">nmbd</b> to dump out its server database in - the <tt class="filename">log.nmb</tt> file.</p><p>The debug log level of nmbd may be raised or lowered - using <a href="smbcontrol.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbcontrol</span>(1)</span></a> (SIGUSR[1|2] signals - are no longer used since Samba 2.2). This is to allow - transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running - at a normally low log level.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of - the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p> - <a href="inetd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">inetd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>, <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>, <a href="testparm.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">testparm</span>(1)</span></a>, <a href="testprns.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">testprns</span>(1)</span></a>, and the Internet - RFC's <tt class="filename">rfc1001.txt</tt>, <tt class="filename">rfc1002.txt</tt>. - In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available - as a link from the Web page <ulink url="http://samba.org/cifs/"> - http://samba.org/cifs/</ulink>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>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.</p><p>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. The conversion to DocBook - XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> |