1 2 3 4 5 6<html><head><title>Samba (7)</title> 7 8<link rev="made" href="mailto:samba@samba.org"> 9</head> 10<body> 11 12<hr> 13 14<h1>Samba (7)</h1> 15<h2>Samba</h2> 16<h2>23 Oct 1998</h2> 17 18 19 20<p><a name="NAME"></a> 21<h2>NAME</h2> 22 Samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX 23<p><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> 24<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> 25 26<strong>Samba</strong> 27<p><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> 28<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> 29 30<p>The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements 31the Server Message Block(commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for 32UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the 33Common Internet File System (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol. 34<p><a name="COMPONENTS"></a> 35<h2>COMPONENTS</h2> 36 37<p>The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each component is 38described in a separate manual page. It is strongly recommended that 39you read the documentation that comes with Samba and the manual pages 40of those components that you use. If the manual pages aren't clear 41enough then please send a patch or bug report 42to <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. 43<p><dl> 44<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong> 45(8)</a> daemon provides the file and print services to SMB 46clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups or 47LanManager. The configuration file for this daemon is described in 48<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf (5)</strong></a>. 49<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd</strong> 50(8)</a> daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing 51support. The configuration file for this daemon is described in 52<a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf (5)</strong></a>. 53<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="smbclient.1.html"><strong>smbclient</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="smbclient.1.html"><strong>smbclient</strong> 54(1)</a> program implements a simple ftp-like 55client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible 56servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box 57to print to a printer attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running 58Windows NT). 59<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="testparm.1.html"><strong>testparm</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="testparm.1.html"><strong>testparm 60(1)</strong></a> utility allows you to test your <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf 61(5)</strong></a> configuration file. 62<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="testprns.1.html"><strong>testprns</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> the <a href="testprns.1.html"><strong>testprns 63(1)</strong></a> utility allows you to test the printers defined 64in your printcap file. 65<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="smbstatus.1.html"><strong>smbstatus</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="smbstatus.1.html"><strong>smbstatus</strong> 66(1)</a> utility allows you list current connections to the 67<a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd (8)</strong></a> server. 68<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="nmblookup.1.html"><strong>nmblookup</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> the 69<a href="nmblookup.1.html"><strong>nmblookup (1)</strong></a> utility allows NetBIOS name 70queries to be made from the UNIX machine. 71<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="make_smbcodepage.1.html"><strong>make_smbcodepage</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The 72<a href="make_smbcodepage.1.html"><strong>make_smbcodepage (1)</strong></a> utility allows 73you to create SMB code page definition files for your <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd 74(8)</strong></a> server. 75<p><p></p><dt><strong><a href="smbpasswd.8.html"><strong>smbpasswd</strong></a></strong><dd> <br> <br> The <a href="smbpasswd.8.html"><strong>smbpasswd 76(8)</strong></a> utility allows you to change SMB encrypted 77passwords on Samba and Windows NT(tm) servers. 78<p></dl> 79<p><a name="AVAILABILITY"></a> 80<h2>AVAILABILITY</h2> 81 82<p>The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public License 83(GPL). A copy of that license should have come with the package in the 84file COPYING. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba 85suite, but please obey the terms of this license. 86<p>The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via anonymous 87ftp from samba.org in the directory pub/samba/. It is 88also available on several mirror sites worldwide. 89<p>You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup 90comp.protocols.smb and the Samba mailing list. Details on how to join 91the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba. 92<p>If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape or Mosaic) then 93you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues 94of the Samba mailing list, at 95<a href="http://samba.org/samba/">http://samba.org/samba/</a>. 96<p><a name="VERSION"></a> 97<h2>VERSION</h2> 98 99<p>This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. 100<p><a name="CONTRIBUTIONS"></a> 101<h2>CONTRIBUTIONS</h2> 102 103<p>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you 104join the Samba mailing list at <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. See the 105Web page at 106<a href="http://samba.org/listproc">http://samba.org/listproc</a> 107for details on how to do this. 108<p>If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them 109directly to <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. Note, however, that due to 110the enormous popularity of this package the Samba Team may take some 111time to respond to mail. We prefer patches in <em>diff -u</em> format. 112<p><a name="CREDITS"></a> 113<h2>CREDITS</h2> 114 115<p>Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention here but 116all deserve the thanks of all Samba users. To see a full list, look at 117<a href="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log</a> 118for the pre-CVS changes and at 119<a href="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log">ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log</a> 120for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source source 121code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba. The 122project would have been unmanageable without it. 123<p>In addition, several commercial organizations now help fund the Samba 124Team with money and equipment. For details see the Samba Web pages at 125<a href="http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html">http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html</a>. 126<p><a name="AUTHOR"></a> 127<h2>AUTHOR</h2> 128 129<p>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by 130Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. Samba is now developed 131by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the 132Linux kernel is developed. 133<p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page 134sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open 135Source software, available at 136<a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"><strong>ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</strong></a>) 137and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. 138<a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. 139</body> 140</html> 141