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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<refentry id="samba">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>SAMBA</refname>
<refpurpose>A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis><command>Samba</command></cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a
more thorough description, see <ulink url="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">
http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/</ulink>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
protocol in nmbd.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>smbd</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>smbd </command>
daemon provides the file and print services to
SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
for this daemon is described in <filename>smb.conf</filename>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>nmbd</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>nmbd</command>
daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
support. The configuration file for this daemon
is described in <filename>smb.conf</filename></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>smbclient</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>smbclient</command>
program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>testparm</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>testparm</command>
utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
<filename>smb.conf</filename>configuration file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>testprns</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>testprns</command>
utility supports testing printer names defined
in your <filename>printcap</filename> file used
by Samba.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>smbstatus</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>smbstatus</command>
tool provides access to information about the
current connections to <command>smbd</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>nmblookup</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>nmblookup</command>
tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
from a UNIX host.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>make_smbcodepage</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>make_smbcodepage</command>
utility provides a means of creating SMB code page
definition files for your <command>smbd</command> server.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>smbpasswd</command></term>
<listitem><para>The <command>smbpasswd</command>
command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>COMPONENTS</title>
<para>The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
<ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org</ulink>
for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.</para>
<para>If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
<ulink url="http://samba.org/">http://www.samba.org/</ulink> and
explore the many option available to you.
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>AVAILABILITY</title>
<para>The Samba software suite is licensed under the
GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
please obey the terms of this license.</para>
<para>The latest version of the Samba suite can be
obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
mirror sites worldwide.</para>
<para>You may also find useful information about Samba
on the newsgroup <ulink url="news:comp.protocols.smb">
comp.protocol.smb</ulink> and the Samba mailing
list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
the README file that comes with Samba.</para>
<para>If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape
or Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
<ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>VERSION</title>
<para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the
Samba suite. </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>CONTRIBUTIONS</title>
<para>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
<ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.
</para>
<para>If you have patches to submit, visit
<ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org/</ulink>
for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in
<command>diff -u</command> format.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>CONTRIBUTORS</title>
<para>Contributors to the project are now too numerous
to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
users. To see a full list, look at <ulink
url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log</ulink>
for the pre-CVS changes and at <ulink
url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log">
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log</ulink>
for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.</para>
<para>In addition, several commercial organizations now help
fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
the Samba Web pages at <ulink
url="http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html">
http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>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.</para>
<para>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
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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