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6 <refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
8 <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9 <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
10 <refmiscinfo class="version">3.5</refmiscinfo>
15 <refname>testparm</refname>
16 <refpurpose>check an smb.conf configuration file for
17 internal correctness</refpurpose>
22 <command>testparm</command>
23 <arg choice="opt">-s</arg>
24 <arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
25 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
26 <arg choice="opt">-L <servername></arg>
27 <arg choice="opt">-t <encoding></arg>
28 <arg choice="req">config filename</arg>
29 <arg choice="opt">hostname hostIP</arg>
34 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
36 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
37 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
39 <para><command>testparm</command> is a very simple test program
40 to check an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
41 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file for
42 internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
43 can use the configuration file with confidence that <command>smbd
44 </command> will successfully load the configuration file.</para>
47 <para>Note that this is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> a guarantee that
48 the services specified in the configuration file will be
49 available or will operate as expected. </para>
51 <para>If the optional host name and host IP address are
52 specified on the command line, this test program will run through
53 the service entries reporting whether the specified host
54 has access to each service. </para>
56 <para>If <command>testparm</command> finds an error in the <filename>
57 smb.conf</filename> file it returns an exit code of 1 to the calling
58 program, else it returns an exit code of 0. This allows shell scripts
59 to test the output from <command>testparm</command>.</para>
63 <title>OPTIONS</title>
68 <listitem><para>Without this option, <command>testparm</command>
69 will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service
70 names and before dumping the service definitions.</para></listitem>
77 <term>-L servername</term>
78 <listitem><para>Sets the value of the %L macro to <replaceable>servername</replaceable>.
79 This is useful for testing include files specified with the
80 %L macro. </para></listitem>
85 <listitem><para>If this option is specified, testparm
86 will also output all options that were not used in <citerefentry>
87 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
88 </citerefentry> and are thus set to their defaults.</para></listitem>
92 <term>-t encoding</term>
94 Output data in specified encoding.
99 <term>--parameter-name parametername</term>
101 Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the view
102 is limited by default to the global section.
104 It is also possible to dump a parametrical option. Therfore
105 the option has to be separated by a colon from the
111 <term>--section-name sectionname</term>
113 Dumps the named section.
118 <term>configfilename</term>
119 <listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
120 to check. If this parameter is not present then the
121 default <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
122 </citerefentry> file will be checked.
128 <term>hostname</term>
129 <listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
130 specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
131 allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
132 parameters in the <citerefentry>
133 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
134 </citerefentry> file to
135 determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
136 allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
137 this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
138 be supplied.</para></listitem>
144 <listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
145 in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
146 if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
156 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
157 </citerefentry></term>
158 <listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
159 file used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
167 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
169 <para>The program will issue a message saying whether the
170 configuration file loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by
171 errors and warnings if the file did not load. If the file was
172 loaded OK, the program then dumps all known service details
178 <title>VERSION</title>
180 <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
181 the Samba suite.</para>
185 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
187 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
188 </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
189 <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
190 </citerefentry></para>
194 <title>AUTHOR</title>
196 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
197 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
198 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
199 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
201 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
202 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
203 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
204 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
205 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
206 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
207 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>