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5<refmeta>
6	<refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
7	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
8</refmeta>
9
10
11<refnamediv>
12	<refname>samba</refname>
13	<refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
14</refnamediv>
15
16<refsynopsisdiv>
17	<cmdsynopsis>
18		<command>samba</command>
19		<arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
20		<arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
21	</cmdsynopsis>
22</refsynopsisdiv>
23
24<refsect1>
25	<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
26	<para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
27	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
28
29	<para><command>samba</command> is the server daemon that 
30	provides filesharing and directory services to Windows clients. 
31	The server provides filespace and directory services to
32	clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol and other 
33	related protocols such as DCE/RPC, LDAP and Kerberos. 
34	</para>
35
36	<para>
37	Clients supported include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for 
38	Workgroups, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003, 
39	OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh, and cifsfs for Linux.</para>
40
41	<para>An extensive description of the services that the 
42	server can provide is given in the man page for the 
43	configuration file controlling the attributes of those 
44	services (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
45	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  This man page will not describe the 
46	services, but will concentrate on the administrative aspects 
47	of running the server.</para>
48
49	<para>Please note that there are significant security 
50	implications to running this server, and the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
51	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page should be regarded as mandatory reading before 
52	proceeding with installation.</para>
53
54	<para>As of Samba 4, there is a single daemon that incorporates the 
55		functionality of both smbd and nmbd that are present in older versions 
56		of Samba.</para>
57
58</refsect1>
59
60<refsect1>
61	<title>OPTIONS</title>
62
63	<variablelist>
64		<varlistentry>
65		<term>-i</term>
66		<listitem><para>If this parameter is specified it causes the
67		server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if the
68		server is executed on the command line of a shell. Setting this
69		parameter negates the implicit deamon mode when run from the
70		command line. <command>samba</command> also logs to standard
71		output, as if the <command>-S</command> parameter had been
72		given.
73		</para></listitem>
74		</varlistentry>
75		
76		<varlistentry>
77		<term>-M model</term>
78		<listitem><para>This parameter can be used to specify the 
79		&quot;process model&quot; samba should use. This determines 
80		how concurrent clients are handled. Available process 
81		models include <emphasis>single</emphasis> (everything in 
82		a single process), <emphasis>standard</emphasis> (similar 
83		behaviour to that of Samba 3), <emphasis>thread</emphasis> 
84		(single process, different threads.
85		</para></listitem>
86		</varlistentry>
87	</variablelist>
88</refsect1>
89
90<refsect1>
91	<title>FILES</title>
92
93	<variablelist>
94		<varlistentry>
95		<term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
96		<listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your 
97		system uses).</para>
98
99		<para>If running the server as a daemon at startup, 
100		this file will need to contain an appropriate startup 
101		sequence for the server. </para></listitem>
102		</varlistentry>
103		
104		<varlistentry>
105		<term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
106		<listitem><para>If running the server via the 
107		meta-daemon <command>inetd</command>, this file 
108		must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn) 
109		to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp). 
110		</para></listitem>
111		</varlistentry>
112		
113		<varlistentry>
114		<term><filename>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename></term>
115		<listitem><para>This is the default location of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
116		<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> server configuration file. Other common places that systems 
117		install this file are <filename>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename> 
118		and <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>.</para>
119		
120		<para>This file describes all the services the server 
121		is to make available to clients. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
122		<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</para>
123		</listitem>
124		</varlistentry>
125	</variablelist>
126</refsect1>
127
128<refsect1>
129	<title>VERSION</title>
130
131	<para>This man page is correct for version 4 of 
132	the Samba suite.</para>
133</refsect1>
134
135<refsect1>
136	<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
137
138	<para>Most diagnostics issued by the server are logged 
139	in a specified log file. The log file name is specified 
140	at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.</para>
141
142	<para>The number and nature of diagnostics available depends 
143	on the debug level used by the server. If you have problems, set 
144	the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.</para>
145
146	<para>Most messages are reasonably self-explanatory. Unfortunately, 
147	at the time this man page was created, there are too many diagnostics 
148	available in the source code to warrant describing each and every 
149	diagnostic. At this stage your best bet is still to grep the 
150	source code and inspect the conditions that gave rise to the 
151	diagnostics you are seeing.</para>
152</refsect1>
153
154<refsect1>
155	<title>SEE ALSO</title>
156	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_access</refentrytitle>
157	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
158	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
159	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
160	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
161	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and the 
162	Internet RFC's	<filename>rfc1001.txt</filename>, <filename>rfc1002.txt</filename>. 
163	In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available 
164	as a link from the Web page <ulink noescape="1" url="http://samba.org/cifs/"> 
165	http://samba.org/cifs/</ulink>.</para>
166</refsect1>
167
168<refsect1>
169	<title>AUTHOR</title>
170	
171	<para>The original Samba software and related utilities 
172	were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
173	by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 
174	to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
175	
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178</refentry>
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