1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> 3<refentry id="samba.8"> 4 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 "process model" 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> 175 176</refsect1> 177 178</refentry> 179