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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 parametername</term>
98 Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the view
99 is limited by default to the global section.
101 It is also possible to dump a parametrical option. Therfore
102 the option has to be separated by a colon from the
108 <term>--section-name sectionname</term>
110 Dumps the named section.
115 <term>configfilename</term>
116 <listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
117 to check. If this parameter is not present then the
118 default <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
119 </citerefentry> file will be checked.
125 <term>hostname</term>
126 <listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
127 specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
128 allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
129 parameters in the <citerefentry>
130 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
131 </citerefentry> file to
132 determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
133 allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
134 this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
135 be supplied.</para></listitem>
141 <listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
142 in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
143 if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
153 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
154 </citerefentry></term>
155 <listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
156 file used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
164 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
166 <para>The program will issue a message saying whether the
167 configuration file loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by
168 errors and warnings if the file did not load. If the file was
169 loaded OK, the program then dumps all known service details
175 <title>VERSION</title>
177 <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
178 the Samba suite.</para>
182 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
184 <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
185 </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
186 <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
187 </citerefentry></para>
191 <title>AUTHOR</title>
193 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
194 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
195 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
196 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
198 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
199 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
200 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
201 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
202 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
203 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
204 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>