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6 <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
8 <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9 <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
10 <refmiscinfo class="version">4.0</refmiscinfo>
15 <refname>samba</refname>
16 <refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
21 <command>samba</command>
22 <arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
28 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
29 <para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
30 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
32 <para><command>samba</command> is the server daemon that
33 provides filesharing and directory services to Windows clients.
34 The server provides filespace and directory services to
35 clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol and other
36 related protocols such as DCE/RPC, LDAP and Kerberos.
40 Clients supported include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for
41 Workgroups, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003,
42 OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh, and cifsfs for Linux.</para>
44 <para>An extensive description of the services that the
45 server can provide is given in the man page for the
46 configuration file controlling the attributes of those
47 services (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
48 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This man page will not describe the
49 services, but will concentrate on the administrative aspects
50 of running the server.</para>
52 <para>Please note that there are significant security
53 implications to running this server, and the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
54 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page should be regarded as mandatory reading before
55 proceeding with installation.</para>
57 <para>As of Samba 4, there is a single daemon that incorporates the
58 functionality of both smbd and nmbd that are present in older versions
64 <title>OPTIONS</title>
69 <listitem><para>If this parameter is specified it causes the
70 server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if the
71 server is executed on the command line of a shell. Setting this
72 parameter negates the implicit daemon mode when run from the
73 command line. <command>samba</command> also logs to standard
74 output, as if the <command>-S</command> parameter had been
81 <listitem><para>This parameter can be used to specify the
82 "process model" samba should use. This determines
83 how concurrent clients are handled. Available process
84 models include <emphasis>single</emphasis> (everything in
85 a single process), <emphasis>standard</emphasis> (similar
86 behaviour to that of Samba 3), <emphasis>thread</emphasis>
87 (single process, different threads.
98 <term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
99 <listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your
102 <para>If running the server as a daemon at startup,
103 this file will need to contain an appropriate startup
104 sequence for the server. </para></listitem>
108 <term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
109 <listitem><para>If running the server via the
110 meta-daemon <command>inetd</command>, this file
111 must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn)
112 to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp).
117 <term><filename>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename></term>
118 <listitem><para>This is the default location of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
119 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> server configuration file. Other common places that systems
120 install this file are <filename>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename>
121 and <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>.</para>
123 <para>This file describes all the services the server
124 is to make available to clients. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
125 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</para>
132 <title>VERSION</title>
134 <para>This man page is correct for version 4 of
135 the Samba suite.</para>
139 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
141 <para>Most diagnostics issued by the server are logged
142 in a specified log file. The log file name is specified
143 at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.</para>
145 <para>The number and nature of diagnostics available depends
146 on the debug level used by the server. If you have problems, set
147 the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.</para>
149 <para>Most messages are reasonably self-explanatory. Unfortunately,
150 at the time this man page was created, there are too many diagnostics
151 available in the source code to warrant describing each and every
152 diagnostic. At this stage your best bet is still to grep the
153 source code and inspect the conditions that gave rise to the
154 diagnostics you are seeing.</para>
158 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
159 <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_access</refentrytitle>
160 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
161 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
162 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
163 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
164 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and the
165 Internet RFC's <filename>rfc1001.txt</filename>, <filename>rfc1002.txt</filename>.
166 In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available
167 as a link from the Web page <ulink noescape="1" url="http://samba.org/cifs/">
168 http://samba.org/cifs/</ulink>.</para>
172 <title>AUTHOR</title>
174 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
175 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
176 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
177 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>