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diff --git a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 index ff98f0ce44..d8bff8bd46 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ .\" <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" "03 January 2003" "" "" +.TH "NMBD" "8" "28 January 2003" "" "" + .SH NAME nmbd \- NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS over IP naming services to clients .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ nmbd \- NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS over IP naming services to clien .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP -This program is part of the Samba suite. +This program is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite. .PP \fBnmbd\fR is a server that understands and can reply to NetBIOS over IP name service requests, like @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ 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)\fR configuration file. +via parameters in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) configuration file. .PP \fBnmbd\fR can also be used as a WINS (Windows Internet Name Server) server. What this basically means @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ 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. \fBnmbd\fR also logs to standard -output, as if the \fB-S\fR parameter had been +output, as if the -S parameter had been given. .TP \fB-o\fR @@ -102,8 +103,9 @@ for \fBnmbd\fR. 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 described in \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR -to resolve any NetBIOS name queries needed by the server. Note +resolution mechanism \fIname resolve +order\fR described in \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) 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. Adding a line to this file affects name NetBIOS resolution @@ -113,9 +115,7 @@ 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)\fR -man page for details on the contents of this file. +\fI/etc/samba/lmhosts\fR. See the \fBlmhosts\fR(5) man page for details on the contents of this file. .TP \fB-V\fR Prints the version number for @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ 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(5)\fR file. +the \fIlog level\fR +parameter in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file. .TP \fB-l <log directory>\fR The -l parameter specifies a directory @@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ will log to the default debug log location defined at compile time. \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 name parameter in the -\fIsmb.conf\fR file. However, a command +to setting the \fINetBIOS +name\fR parameter in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file. However, a command line setting will take precedence over settings in -\fIsmb.conf\fR. +\fBsmb.conf\fR(5). .TP \fB-p <UDP port number>\fR UDP port number is a positive integer value. @@ -174,14 +174,14 @@ 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)\fR for more information. +required by the server. See \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) 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.html document +meta-daemon. See the install document for details. .TP \fB\fI/etc/rc\fB\fR @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ 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.html document +sequence for the server. See the "How to Install and Test SAMBA" document for details. .TP \fB\fI/etc/services\fB\fR @@ -198,27 +198,26 @@ If running the server via the meta-daemon \fBinetd\fR, 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). -See the UNIX_INSTALL.html +See the "How to Install and Test SAMBA" document for details. .TP \fB\fI/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf\fB\fR -This is the default location of the -\fIsmb.conf\fR -server configuration file. Other common places that systems +This is the default location of +the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) server +configuration file. Other common places that systems install this file are \fI/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf\fR -and \fI/etc/smb.conf\fR. +and \fI/etc/samba/smb.conf\fR. When run as a WINS server (see the wins support -parameter in the \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR man page), +parameter in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) man page), \fBnmbd\fR 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 -parameter in the \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR man page, -\fBnmbd\fR +parameter in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) man page, \fBnmbd\fR will store the browsing database in the file \fIbrowse.dat \fR in the \fIvar/locks\fR directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. @@ -238,10 +237,10 @@ under wherever Samba was configured to install itself). This will also cause \fBnmbd\fR to dump out its server database in 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 -to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running +The debug log level of nmbd may be raised or lowered +using \fBsmbcontrol\fR(1) (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. .SH "VERSION" .PP @@ -249,11 +248,8 @@ This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP -\fBinetd(8)\fR, \fBsmbd(8)\fR -\fIsmb.conf(5)\fR - \fBsmbclient(1) -\fR and the Internet RFC's -\fIrfc1001.txt\fR, \fIrfc1002.txt\fR. +\fBinetd\fR(8), \fBsmbd\fR(8), \fBsmb.conf\fR(5), \fBsmbclient\fR(1), \fBtestparm\fR(1), \fBtestprns\fR(1), 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 http://samba.org/cifs/ <URL:http://samba.org/cifs/>. @@ -266,7 +262,7 @@ to the way the Linux kernel is developed. .PP 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 +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 +Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook +XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy. |