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nmbd

+

Samba

+

23 Oct 1998

+ + + + +


+

NAME

+ nmbd - NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS over IP +naming services to clients +


+

SYNOPSIS

+ +


nmbd [-D] [-o] [-a] [-H lmhosts file] [-d debuglevel] [-l log file basename] [-n primary NetBIOS name] [-p port number] [-s configuration file] [-i NetBIOS scope] [-h] +


+

DESCRIPTION

+ +


This program is part of the Samba suite. +


nmbd is a server that understands and can reply to NetBIOS over IP +name service requests, like those produced by SMBD/CIFS clients such +as Windows 95/98, Windows NT and LanManager clients. It also +participates in the browsing protocols which make up the Windows +"Network Neighborhood" view. +


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, +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) +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 +from clients that do not understand how to talk the WINS protocol to a +WIN server. +


+

OPTIONS

+ +


+


+

FILES

+ +


/etc/inetd.conf +


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). +


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 +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 +parameter in the smb.conf (5) man page), nmbd will +store the WINS database in the file wins.dat in the var/locks directory +configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. +


If nmbd is acting as a browse master (see the local master +parameter in the smb.conf (5) man page), nmbd will +store the browsing database in the file browse.dat in the var/locks directory +configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. +


+

SIGNALS

+ +


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 +its own. +


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 +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 +level. +


+

VERSION

+ +


This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. +


+

SEE ALSO

+ +


inetd (8), smbd (8), smb.conf +(5), smbclient (1), +testparm (1), testprns +(1), and the Internet RFC's rfc1001.txt, +rfc1002.txt. In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is +available as a link from the Web page : +http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs/. +


+

AUTHOR

+ +


The original Samba software and related utilities were created by +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 +sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open +Source software) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy +Allison, samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. +


See samba (7) to find out how to get a full list of contributors +and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc. + + -- cgit