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6 <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
12 <refname>samba</refname>
13 <refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
18 <command>samba</command>
19 <arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
20 <arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
25 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
26 <para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
27 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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
61 <title>OPTIONS</title>
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
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.
95 <term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
96 <listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your
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>
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).
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>
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>
129 <title>VERSION</title>
131 <para>This man page is correct for version 4 of
132 the Samba suite.</para>
136 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
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>
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>
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>
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>
169 <title>AUTHOR</title>
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>