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27 >SAMBA
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A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
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49 >The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
50 that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
51 as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
52 also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS),
53 LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.
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70 daemon provides the file and print services to
71 SMB clients, such as Windows
95/
98, Windows NT, Windows
72 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
73 for this daemon is described in
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90 daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
91 support. The configuration file for this daemon
108 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
109 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
110 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
111 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
112 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).
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125 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
129 >configuration file.
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142 utility supports testing printer names defined
160 tool provides access to information about the
161 current connections to
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177 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
191 utility provides a means of creating SMB code page
192 definition files for your
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208 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
209 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
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222 >The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
223 component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
224 recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
225 and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
226 manual pages aren't clear enough then please send a patch or
228 HREF=
"mailto:samba@samba.org"
241 >The Samba software suite is licensed under the
242 GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
243 have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
244 encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
245 please obey the terms of this license.
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247 >The latest version of the Samba suite can be
248 obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
249 directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
250 mirror sites worldwide.
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252 >You may also find useful information about Samba
254 HREF=
"news:comp.protocols.smb"
256 > comp.protocol.smb
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257 > and the Samba mailing
258 list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
259 the README file that comes with Samba.
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261 >If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape
262 or Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful information,
263 including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
265 HREF=
"http://lists.samba.org/"
267 >http://lists.samba.org
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278 >This man page is correct for version
2.2 of the
289 >If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
290 then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
292 HREF=
"http://lists.samba.org/"
294 >http://lists.samba.org
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298 >If you have patches to submit or bugs to report
299 then you may mail them directly to samba-patches@samba.org.
300 Note, however, that due to the enormous popularity of this
301 package the Samba Team may take some time to respond to mail. We
315 >Contributors to the project are now too numerous
316 to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
317 users. To see a full list, look at
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318 HREF=
"ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log"
320 > ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log
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322 for the pre-CVS changes and at
<A
323 HREF=
"ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log"
325 > ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log
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327 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS 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.
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331 >In addition, several commercial organizations now help
332 fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
333 the Samba Web pages at
<A
334 HREF=
"http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html"
336 > http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html
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347 >The original Samba software and related utilities
348 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
349 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
350 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
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352 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
353 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
354 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
356 HREF=
"ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
358 > ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
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359 >) and updated for the Samba
2.0
360 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
361 Samba
2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
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