From 3bb3f2d0ce1165d0cac683f507d838d20c8c743b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Allison Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 03:01:40 +0000 Subject: Update for 2.0beta1. Jeremy. (This used to be commit 598d0255d40da29ebab3d1a3c9eb66ba654db7b5) --- docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html') diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html index 1408b6fd4e..dc8f5b0de3 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/nmbd.8.html @@ -38,19 +38,19 @@ participates in the browsing protocols which make up the Windows


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. -


Amongst other services, this program will listen for such requests, +


Amongst other services, nmbd 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 overriden with the -n option (see OPTIONS below). Thus -nmbd will reply to broadcast queries for its own name(s). Additional -names for nmbd to respond on can be set via parameters in the -smb.conf (5) configuration file. -


nmbd can also be used as a WINS (Windows Internet Name Server) +can be overridden with the -n option (see OPTIONS below). Thus +nmbd will reply to broadcast queries for its own name(s). Additional +names for nmbd to respond on can be set via parameters in the +smb.conf(5) configuration file. +


nmbd 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. -


In addition, nmbd can act as a WINS proxy, relaying broadcast queries +


In addition, nmbd can act as a WINS proxy, relaying broadcast queries from clients that do not understand how to talk the WINS protocol to a WIN server.


@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ WIN server.



FILES

@@ -142,11 +143,12 @@ communicate with.


If the server is to be run by the inetd meta-daemon, this file must contain suitable startup information for the meta-daemon.


/etc/rc -


(or whatever initialisation script your system uses). +


(or whatever initialization script your system uses).


If running the server as a daemon at startup, this file will need to contain an appropriate startup sequence for the server.


/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf -


This is the default location of the smb.conf server configuration +


This is the default location of the +smb.conf server configuration file. Other common places that systems install this file are /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf and /etc/smb.conf.


When run as a WINS server (see the wins support @@ -160,17 +162,17 @@ configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself.


SIGNALS

-


To shut down an nmbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9) +


To shut down an nmbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9) NOT be used, except as a last resort, as this may leave the name -database in an inconsistant state. The correct way to terminate -nmbd is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on +database in an inconsistent state. The correct way to terminate +nmbd is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own. -


nmbd will accept SIGHUP, which will cause it to dump out it's -namelists into the file namelist.debug in the +


nmbd will accept SIGHUP, which will cause it to dump out it's +namelists into the file namelist.debug in the /usr/local/samba/var/locks directory (or the var/locks directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install -itself). This will also cause nmbd to dump out it's server database in -the log.nmb file. In addition, the the debug log level of nmbd may be raised +itself). This will also cause nmbd to dump out it's server database in +the log.nmb file. In addition, the debug log level of nmbd may be raised by sending it a SIGUSR1 (kill -USR1 <nmbd-pid>) and lowered by sending it a SIGUSR2 (kill -USR2 <nmbd-pid>). This is to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running at a normally low log @@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ available as a link from the Web page :

AUTHOR


The original Samba software and related utilities were created by -Andrew Tridgell (samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au). Samba is now developed +Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. 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 -- cgit