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6 <refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
12 <refname>testparm</refname>
13 <refpurpose>check an smb.conf configuration file for
14 internal correctness</refpurpose>
19 <command>testparm</command>
20 <arg choice="opt">-s</arg>
21 <arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
22 <arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">-L <servername></arg>
24 <arg choice="opt">-t <encoding></arg>
25 <arg choice="req">config filename</arg>
26 <arg choice="opt">hostname hostIP</arg>
31 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
33 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
34 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
36 <para><command>testparm</command> is a very simple test program
37 to check an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
38 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file for
39 internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
40 can use the configuration file with confidence that <command>smbd
41 </command> will successfully load the configuration file.</para>
44 <para>Note that this is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> a guarantee that
45 the services specified in the configuration file will be
46 available or will operate as expected. </para>
48 <para>If the optional host name and host IP address are
49 specified on the command line, this test program will run through
50 the service entries reporting whether the specified host
51 has access to each service. </para>
53 <para>If <command>testparm</command> finds an error in the <filename>
54 smb.conf</filename> file it returns an exit code of 1 to the calling
55 program, else it returns an exit code of 0. This allows shell scripts
56 to test the output from <command>testparm</command>.</para>
60 <title>OPTIONS</title>
65 <listitem><para>Without this option, <command>testparm</command>
66 will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service
67 names and before dumping the service definitions.</para></listitem>
74 <term>-L servername</term>
75 <listitem><para>Sets the value of the %L macro to <replaceable>servername</replaceable>.
76 This is useful for testing include files specified with the
77 %L macro. </para></listitem>
82 <listitem><para>If this option is specified, testparm
83 will also output all options that were not used in <citerefentry>
84 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
85 </citerefentry> and are thus set to their defaults.</para></listitem>
89 <term>-t encoding</term>
91 Output data in specified encoding.
96 <term>--parameter-name</term>
98 Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the view
99 is limited by default to the global section.
104 <term>--section-name</term>
106 Dumps the named section.
111 <term>configfilename</term>
112 <listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
113 to check. If this parameter is not present then the
114 default <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
115 </citerefentry> file will be checked.
121 <term>hostname</term>
122 <listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
123 specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
124 allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
125 parameters in the <citerefentry>
126 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
127 </citerefentry> file to
128 determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
129 allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
130 this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
131 be supplied.</para></listitem>
137 <listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
138 in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
139 if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
149 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
150 </citerefentry></term>
151 <listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
152 file used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
160 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
162 <para>The program will issue a message saying whether the
163 configuration file loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by
164 errors and warnings if the file did not load. If the file was
165 loaded OK, the program then dumps all known service details
171 <title>VERSION</title>
173 <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
174 the Samba suite.</para>
178 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
180 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
181 </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
182 <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
183 </citerefentry></para>
187 <title>AUTHOR</title>
189 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
190 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
191 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
192 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
194 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
195 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
196 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
197 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
198 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
199 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
200 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>