1 .TH SAMBA 7 "07 Feb 1999" "samba 2.0.1"
4 Samba \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
11 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
12 the Server Message Block(commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for
13 UNIX systems\&. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the
14 Common Internet File System (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol\&.
18 The Samba suite is made up of several components\&. Each component is
19 described in a separate manual page\&. It is strongly recommended that
20 you read the documentation that comes with Samba and the manual pages
21 of those components that you use\&. If the manual pages aren\'t clear
22 enough then please send a patch or bug report
23 to \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&.
30 (8) daemon provides the file and print services to SMB
31 clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups or
32 LanManager\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
33 \fBsmb\&.conf (5)\fP\&.
39 (8) daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
40 support\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
41 \fBsmb\&.conf (5)\fP\&.
47 (1) program implements a simple ftp-like
48 client\&. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
49 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box
50 to print to a printer attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running
57 (1)\fP utility allows you to test your \fBsmb\&.conf
58 (5)\fP configuration file\&.
64 (1)\fP utility allows you to test the printers defined
65 in your printcap file\&.
71 (1) utility allows you list current connections to the
72 \fBsmbd (8)\fP server\&.
78 \fBnmblookup (1)\fP utility allows NetBIOS name
79 queries to be made from the UNIX machine\&.
81 .IP "\fBmake_smbcodepage\fP"
85 \fBmake_smbcodepage (1)\fP utility allows
86 you to create SMB code page definition files for your \fBsmbd
93 (8)\fP utility allows you to change SMB encrypted
94 passwords on Samba and Windows NT(tm) servers\&.
99 The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public License
100 (GPL)\&. A copy of that license should have come with the package in the
101 file COPYING\&. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba
102 suite, but please obey the terms of this license\&.
104 The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via anonymous
105 ftp from samba\&.org in the directory pub/samba/\&. It is
106 also available on several mirror sites worldwide\&.
108 You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup
109 comp\&.protocols\&.smb and the Samba mailing list\&. Details on how to join
110 the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba\&.
112 If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape or Mosaic) then
113 you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues
114 of the Samba mailing list, at
115 http://samba\&.org/samba/\&.
119 This man page is correct for version 2\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
123 If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you
124 join the Samba mailing list at \fIsamba@samba\&.org\fP\&. See the
126 http://samba\&.org/listproc
127 for details on how to do this\&.
129 If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them
130 directly to \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&. Note, however, that due to
131 the enormous popularity of this package the Samba Team may take some
132 time to respond to mail\&. We prefer patches in \fIdiff -u\fP format\&.
136 Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention here but
137 all deserve the thanks of all Samba users\&. To see a full list, look at
138 ftp://samba\&.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log
139 for the pre-CVS changes and at
140 ftp://samba\&.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs\&.log
141 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS\&. CVS is the Open Source source
142 code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba\&. The
143 project would have been unmanageable without it\&.
145 In addition, several commercial organizations now help fund the Samba
146 Team with money and equipment\&. For details see the Samba Web pages at
147 http://samba\&.org/samba/samba-thanks\&.html\&.
151 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
152 Andrew Tridgell \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&. Samba is now developed
153 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
154 Linux kernel is developed\&.
156 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer\&. The man page
157 sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
158 Source software, available at
159 \fBftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/\fP)
160 and updated for the Samba2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&.
161 \fIsamba-bugs@samba\&.org\fP\&.