From 293421f3c64a2adff7dc15f7ad3adb6120c9fd16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerald Carter
If specified, this parameter causes smbd to log to standard output rather than a file.
If this parameter is specified it causes the - server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if 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 deamon mode when run from the command line. smbd also logs to standard output, as if the -S parameter had been given. -
Prints the version number for -smbd.
The file specified contains the +
Prints the program version number. +
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 @@ -62,26 +62,26 @@ not specified is zero.
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 +day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of information about operations carried out.
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.
Note that specifying this parameter here will -override the log level parameter +override the log level parameter in the smb.conf file.
File name for log/debug files. The extension -".client" will be appended. The log file is +".client" will be appended. The log file is never removed by the client.
Print a summary of command line options.
Prints information about how Samba was built.
If specified, log directory - specifies a log directory into which the "log.smbd" log + specifies a log directory into which the "log.smbd" log file will be created for informational and debug messages from the running server. The log file generated is never removed by the server although its size may be controlled by the - max log size + max log size option in the smb.conf(5) file. Beware: If the directory specified does not exist, smbd will log to the default debug log location defined at compile time. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ never removed by the client. is not specific to the server, however.
Samba uses PAM for authentication (when presented with a plaintext password), for account checking (is this account disabled?) and for session management. The degree too which samba supports PAM is restricted - by the limitations of the SMB protocol and the obey pam restrictions smb.conf(5) paramater. When this is set, the following restrictions apply: + by the limitations of the SMB protocol and the obey pam restrictions smb.conf(5) paramater. When this is set, the following restrictions apply:
Account Validation: All accesses to a samba server are checked against PAM to see if the account is vaild, not disabled and is permitted to @@ -165,14 +165,14 @@ never removed by the client. them after, however this would affect performance.
hosts_access(5), inetd(8), nmbd(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.org/cifs/.
The original Samba software and related utilities
+ as a link from the Web page
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.
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/) and updated for the Samba 2.0
+ excellent piece of Open Source software, available at