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Samba Documentation

• Daemons
  • smbd - the SMB daemon
  • nmbd - the NetBIOS nameserver
  • winbindd - the winbind daemon
• Configuration Files
  • smb.conf - the main Samba configuration file
  • lmhosts - NetBIOS hosts file
  • smbpasswd - SMB password file
• Administrative Utilities
  • smbcontrol - send control messages to Samba daemons
  • smbpasswd - managing SMB passwords
  • SWAT - web configuration tool
  • net - tool for administration of Samba and remote CIFS servers
  • pdbedit - Samba user account management tool
  • tdbbackup - Tool for backing up TDB databases
• Client Tools
  • rpcclient - command line MS-RPC client
  • smbtar - SMB backup tool
  • smbclient - command line SMB client
  • smbmnt - helper utility for mounting SMB filesystems on Linux hosts
  • smbmount - user space tool for mounting SMB filesystems under Linux
  • smbspool - command line SMB print client
  • smbumount - user space tool for umounting SMB filesystems under Linux
  • ntlm_auth - allow external programs to use NTLM authentication
  • smbcquotas - get or set quotas on NTFS 5 shares
  • smbsh - Allow access to remote SMB shares using a UNIX shell
  • smbtree - Text-based SMB network browsing
  • smbspool - Send a print job to an SMB printer
• Diagnostic Utilities
  • smbstatus - monitoring Samba
  • testparm - validating your config file
  • testprns - testing printer configuration
  • nmblookup - NetBIOS name query tool
  • wbinfo - Tool for getting winbind information
• Misc. Utilities
  • profiles - migrating profiles from one domain to another
  • editreg - editing windows registry files
  • log2pcap - generate pcap files from samba log files
• Books
  • Using Samba - by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly
  • The Samba HOWTO Collection

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