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1 .TH SAMBA 7 "08 Dec 1998" "samba 2.0.0beta3"
2 .PP
3 .SH "NAME"
4 Samba \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
5 .PP
6 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
7 \fBSamba\fP
8 .PP
9 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
10 .PP
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\&.
15 .PP
16 .SH "COMPONENTS"
17 .PP
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\&.
24 .PP
25 .IP
26 .IP "\fBsmbd\fP"
27 .br
28 .br
29 The \fBsmbd\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\&.
34 .IP
35 .IP "\fBnmbd\fP"
36 .br
37 .br
38 The \fBnmbd\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\&.
42 .IP
43 .IP "\fBsmbclient\fP"
44 .br
45 .br
46 The \fBsmbclient\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
51 Windows NT)\&.
52 .IP
53 .IP "\fBtestparm\fP"
54 .br
55 .br
56 The \fBtestparm
57 (1)\fP utility allows you to test your \fBsmb\&.conf
58 (5)\fP configuration file\&.
59 .IP
60 .IP "\fBtestprns\fP"
61 .br
62 .br
63 the \fBtestprns
64 (1)\fP utility allows you to test the printers defined
65 in your printcap file\&.
66 .IP
67 .IP "\fBsmbstatus\fP"
68 .br
69 .br
70 The \fBsmbstatus\fP
71 (1) utility allows you list current connections to the
72 \fBsmbd (8)\fP server\&.
73 .IP
74 .IP "\fBnmblookup\fP"
75 .br
76 .br
77 the
78 \fBnmblookup (1)\fP utility allows NetBIOS name
79 queries to be made from the UNIX machine\&.
80 .IP
81 .IP "\fBmake_smbcodepage\fP"
82 .br
83 .br
84 The
85 \fBmake_smbcodepage (1)\fP utility allows
86 you to create SMB code page definition files for your \fBsmbd
87 (8)\fP server\&.
88 .IP
89 .IP "\fBsmbpasswd\fP"
90 .br
91 .br
92 The \fBsmbpasswd
93 (8)\fP utility allows you to change SMB encrypted
94 passwords on Samba and Windows NT(tm) servers\&.
95 .IP
96 .PP
97 .SH "AVAILABILITY"
98 .PP
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\&.
103 .PP
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\&.
107 .PP
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\&.
111 .PP
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/\&.
116 .PP
117 .SH "VERSION"
118 .PP
119 This man page is correct for version 2\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
120 .PP
121 .SH "CONTRIBUTIONS"
122 .PP
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
125 Web page at
126 http://samba\&.org/listproc
127 for details on how to do this\&.
128 .PP
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\&.
133 .PP
134 .SH "CREDITS"
135 .PP
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\&.
144 .PP
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\&.
148 .PP
149 .SH "AUTHOR"
150 .PP
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\&.
155 .PP
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\&.