docs-xml/manpages/samba.7.xml

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   3 <refentry id="samba.7">
   4
   5 <refmeta>
   6         <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
   7         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
   8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
   9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">Miscellanea</refmiscinfo>
  10         <refmiscinfo class="version">4.2</refmiscinfo>
  11 </refmeta>
  12
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15         <refname>samba</refname>
  16         <refpurpose>A Windows AD and SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX</refpurpose>
  17 </refnamediv>
  18
  19 <refsynopsisdiv>
  20         <cmdsynopsis><command>samba</command></cmdsynopsis>
  21 </refsynopsisdiv>
  22
  23 <refsect1>
  24         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  25
  26         <para>The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
  27         that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
  28         as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems and provides Active Directory
  29         services. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the
  30         Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a more thorough description,
  31         see <ulink url="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">
  32         http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/</ulink>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
  33         protocol in nmbd.</para>
  34
  35         <variablelist>
  36                 <varlistentry>
  37                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
  38                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  39                 <listitem><para>The <command>samba</command> daemon provides the
  40                 Active Directory services and file and print services to
  41                 SMB clients. The configuration file
  42                 for this daemon is described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
  43                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
  44                 </para></listitem>
  45                 </varlistentry>
  46
  47                 <varlistentry>
  48                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
  49                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  50                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbd</command> daemon provides the file and print services to
  51                 SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
  52                 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
  53                 for this daemon is described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
  54                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
  55                 </para></listitem>
  56                 </varlistentry>
  57
  58                 <varlistentry>
  59                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
  60                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  61                 <listitem><para>The <command>nmbd</command>
  62                 daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
  63                 support. The configuration file for this daemon
  64                 is described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
  65                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
  66                 </listitem>
  67                 </varlistentry>
  68
  69                 <varlistentry>
  70                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>winbindd</refentrytitle>
  71                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  72                 <listitem><para><command>winbindd</command> is a daemon
  73                 that is used for integrating authentication and
  74                 the user database into unix.</para></listitem>
  75                 </varlistentry>
  76
  77                 <varlistentry>
  78                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
  79                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  80                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbclient</command>
  81                 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
  82                 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
  83                 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
  84                 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
  85                 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).</para>
  86                 </listitem>
  87                 </varlistentry>
  88
  89                 <varlistentry>
  90                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba-tool</refentrytitle>
  91                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
  92                 <listitem><para>The <command>samba-tool</command>
  93                 is the main Samba Administration tool regarding
  94                 Active Directory services.</para>
  95                 </listitem>
  96                 </varlistentry>
  97
  98                 <varlistentry>
  99                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
 100                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 101                 <listitem><para>The <command>testparm</command>
 102                 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
 103                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file.</para>
 104                 </listitem>
 105                 </varlistentry>
 106
 107                 <varlistentry>
 108                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbstatus</refentrytitle>
 109                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 110                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbstatus</command>
 111                 tool provides access to information about the
 112                 current connections to <command>smbd</command>.</para>
 113                 </listitem>
 114                 </varlistentry>
 115
 116                 <varlistentry>
 117                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmblookup</refentrytitle>
 118                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 119                 <listitem><para>The <command>nmblookup</command>
 120                 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
 121                 from a UNIX host.</para>
 122                 </listitem>
 123                 </varlistentry>
 124
 125                 <varlistentry>
 126                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
 127                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 128                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbpasswd</command>
 129                 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
 130                 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.</para>
 131                 </listitem>
 132                 </varlistentry>
 133
 134                 <varlistentry>
 135                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbcacls</refentrytitle>
 136                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 137                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbcacls</command> command is
 138                 a tool to set ACL's on remote CIFS servers. </para>
 139                 </listitem>
 140                 </varlistentry>
 141
 142                 <varlistentry>
 143                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbtree</refentrytitle>
 144                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 145                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbtree</command> command
 146                 is a text-based network neighborhood tool.</para></listitem>
 147                 </varlistentry>
 148
 149                 <varlistentry>
 150                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbtar</refentrytitle>
 151                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 152                 <listitem><para>The <command>smbtar</command> can make
 153                 backups of data on CIFS/SMB servers.</para></listitem>
 154                 </varlistentry>
 155
 156                 <varlistentry>
 157                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbspool</refentrytitle>
 158                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 159                 <listitem><para><command>smbspool</command> is a
 160                 helper utility for printing on printers connected
 161                 to CIFS servers. </para></listitem>
 162                 </varlistentry>
 163
 164                 <varlistentry>
 165                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbcontrol</refentrytitle>
 166                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 167                 <listitem><para><command>smbcontrol</command> is a utility
 168                 that can change the behaviour of running
 169                 <command>smbd</command>, <command>nmbd</command> and
 170                 <command>winbindd</command> daemons.
 171                 </para></listitem>
 172                 </varlistentry>
 173
 174                 <varlistentry>
 175                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>rpcclient</refentrytitle>
 176                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 177                 <listitem><para><command>rpcclient</command> is a utility
 178                 that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote
 179                 CIFS servers.</para></listitem>
 180                 </varlistentry>
 181
 182                 <varlistentry>
 183                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>pdbedit</refentrytitle>
 184                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 185                 <listitem><para>The <command>pdbedit</command> command
 186                 can be used to maintain the local user database on
 187                 a samba server.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
 188
 189                 <varlistentry>
 190                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>findsmb</refentrytitle>
 191                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 192                 <listitem><para>The <command>findsmb</command> command
 193                 can be used to find SMB servers on the local network.
 194                 </para></listitem></varlistentry>
 195
 196                 <varlistentry>
 197                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>net</refentrytitle>
 198                 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 199                 <listitem><para>The <command>net</command> command
 200                 is supposed to work similar to the DOS/Windows
 201                 NET.EXE command.</para></listitem>
 202                 </varlistentry>
 203
 204                 <varlistentry>
 205                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>wbinfo</refentrytitle>
 206                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 207                 <listitem><para><command>wbinfo</command> is a utility
 208                 that retrieves and stores information related to winbind.
 209                 </para></listitem>
 210                 </varlistentry>
 211
 212                 <varlistentry>
 213                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>profiles</refentrytitle>
 214                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 215                 <listitem><para><command>profiles</command> is a command-line
 216                 utility that can be used to replace all occurrences of
 217                 a certain SID with another SID.
 218                 </para></listitem>
 219                 </varlistentry>
 220
 221                 <varlistentry>
 222                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>log2pcap</refentrytitle>
 223                                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 224                 <listitem><para><command>log2pcap</command> is a utility
 225                                 for generating pcap trace files from Samba log
 226                                 files.</para></listitem>
 227                 </varlistentry>
 228
 229                 <varlistentry>
 230                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>vfstest</refentrytitle>
 231                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 232                 <listitem><para><command>vfstest</command> is a utility
 233                 that can be used to test vfs modules.</para></listitem>
 234                 </varlistentry>
 235
 236                 <varlistentry>
 237                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>ntlm_auth</refentrytitle>
 238                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 239                 <listitem><para><command>ntlm_auth</command> is a helper-utility
 240                 for external programs wanting to do NTLM-authentication.
 241                 </para></listitem></varlistentry>
 242
 243                 <varlistentry>
 244                 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbcquotas</refentrytitle>
 245                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
 246                 <listitem><para><command>smbcquotas</command> is a tool that
 247                 can set remote QUOTA's on server with NTFS 5. </para>
 248                 </listitem>
 249                 </varlistentry>
 250         </variablelist>
 251 </refsect1>
 252
 253 <refsect1>
 254         <title>COMPONENTS</title>
 255
 256         <para>The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
 257         component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
 258         recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
 259         and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
 260         manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
 261         <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org</ulink>
 262         for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.</para>
 263
 264         <para>If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
 265         <ulink url="http://samba.org/">http://www.samba.org/</ulink> and
 266         explore the many option available to you.
 267         </para>
 268 </refsect1>
 269
 270 <refsect1>
 271         <title>AVAILABILITY</title>
 272
 273         <para>The Samba software suite is licensed under the
 274         GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
 275         have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
 276         encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
 277         please obey the terms of this license.</para>
 278
 279         <para>The latest version of the Samba suite can be
 280         obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
 281         directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
 282         mirror sites worldwide.</para>
 283
 284         <para>You may also find useful information about Samba
 285         on the newsgroup <ulink url="news:comp.protocols.smb">
 286         comp.protocol.smb</ulink> and the Samba mailing
 287         list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
 288         the README file that comes with Samba.</para>
 289
 290         <para>If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Mozilla
 291         or Konqueror) then you will also find lots of useful information,
 292         including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
 293         <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.</para>
 294 </refsect1>
 295
 296 <refsect1>
 297         <title>VERSION</title>
 298
 299         <para>This man page is correct for version 4 of the
 300         Samba suite. </para>
 301 </refsect1>
 302
 303 <refsect1>
 304         <title>CONTRIBUTIONS</title>
 305
 306         <para>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
 307         then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
 308         <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.
 309         </para>
 310
 311         <para>If you have patches to submit, visit
 312         <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org/</ulink>
 313         for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches
 314         in <command>git format-patch</command> format.</para>
 315 </refsect1>
 316
 317 <refsect1>
 318         <title>CONTRIBUTORS</title>
 319
 320         <para>Contributors to the project are now too numerous
 321         to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
 322         users. To see a full list, look at the
 323         <filename>change-log</filename> in the source package
 324         for the pre-CVS changes and at <ulink
 325         url="http://git.samba.org/">
 326         http://git.samba.org/</ulink>
 327         for the contributors to Samba post-GIT. GIT is the Open Source
 328         source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
 329         Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.</para>
 330 </refsect1>
 331
 332 <refsect1>
 333         <title>AUTHOR</title>
 334
 335         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
 336         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 337         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 338         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
 339
 340         <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
 341         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 342         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
 343         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 344         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 345         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML
 346         4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
 347 </refsect1>
 348
 349 </refentry>