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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<refentry id="samba.8">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>samba</refname>
<refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>samba</command>
<arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
<para><command>samba</command> is the server daemon that
provides filesharing and directory services to Windows clients.
The server provides filespace and directory services to
clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol and other
related protocols such as DCE/RPC, LDAP and Kerberos.
</para>
<para>
Clients supported include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for
Workgroups, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003,
OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh, and cifsfs for Linux.</para>
<para>An extensive description of the services that the
server can provide is given in the man page for the
configuration file controlling the attributes of those
services (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This man page will not describe the
services, but will concentrate on the administrative aspects
of running the server.</para>
<para>Please note that there are significant security
implications to running this server, and the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page should be regarded as mandatory reading before
proceeding with installation.</para>
<para>As of Samba 4, there is a single daemon that incorporates the
functionality of both smbd and nmbd that are present in older versions
of Samba.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>-i</term>
<listitem><para>If this parameter is specified it causes 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. <command>samba</command> also logs to standard
output, as if the <command>-S</command> parameter had been
given.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-M model</term>
<listitem><para>This parameter can be used to specify the
"process model" samba should use. This determines
how concurrent clients are handled. Available process
models include <emphasis>single</emphasis> (everything in
a single process), <emphasis>standard</emphasis> (similar
behaviour to that of Samba 3), <emphasis>thread</emphasis>
(single process, different threads.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>FILES</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
<listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your
system uses).</para>
<para>If running the server as a daemon at startup,
this file will need to contain an appropriate startup
sequence for the server. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
<listitem><para>If running the server via the
meta-daemon <command>inetd</command>, this file
must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn)
to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename></term>
<listitem><para>This is the default location of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> server configuration file. Other common places that systems
install this file are <filename>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename>
and <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>.</para>
<para>This file describes all the services the server
is to make available to clients. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>VERSION</title>
<para>This man page is correct for version 4 of
the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
<para>Most diagnostics issued by the server are logged
in a specified log file. The log file name is specified
at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.</para>
<para>The number and nature of diagnostics available depends
on the debug level used by the server. If you have problems, set
the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.</para>
<para>Most messages are reasonably self-explanatory. Unfortunately,
at the time this man page was created, there are too many diagnostics
available in the source code to warrant describing each and every
diagnostic. At this stage your best bet is still to grep the
source code and inspect the conditions that gave rise to the
diagnostics you are seeing.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_access</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and the
Internet RFC's <filename>rfc1001.txt</filename>, <filename>rfc1002.txt</filename>.
In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available
as a link from the Web page <ulink noescape="1" url="http://samba.org/cifs/">
http://samba.org/cifs/</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>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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