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| 20 | .TH "SAMBA" 7 "" "" ""
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| 21 | .SH NAME
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| 22 | samba \- A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
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| 23 | .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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| 24 | .ad l
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| 25 | .hy 0
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| 26 | .HP 6
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| 27 | \fBsamba\fR
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| 28 | .ad
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| 30 |
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| 31 | .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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| 32 |
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| 33 | .PP
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| 34 | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems\&. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS)\&. For a more thorough description, see http://www\&.ubiqx\&.org/cifs/\&. Samba also implements the NetBIOS protocol in nmbd\&.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | .TP
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| 37 | \fBsmbd\fR(8)
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| 38 | The \fBsmbd\fR daemon provides the file and print services to SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups or LanManager\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5)
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| 39 |
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| 40 | .TP
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| 41 | \fBnmbd\fR(8)
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| 42 | The \fBnmbd\fR daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing support\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5)
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| 44 | .TP
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| 45 | \fBsmbclient\fR(1)
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| 46 | The \fBsmbclient\fR program implements a simple ftp\-like client\&. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT)\&.
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| 47 |
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| 48 | .TP
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| 49 | \fBtestparm\fR(1)
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| 50 | The \fBtestparm\fR utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5) configuration file\&.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | .TP
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| 53 | \fBtestprns\fR(1)
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| 54 | The \fBtestprns\fR utility supports testing printer names defined in your \fIprintcap\fR file used by Samba\&.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | .TP
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| 57 | \fBsmbstatus\fR(1)
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| 58 | The \fBsmbstatus\fR tool provides access to information about the current connections to \fBsmbd\fR\&.
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| 60 | .TP
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| 61 | \fBnmblookup\fR(1)
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| 62 | The \fBnmblookup\fR tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made from a UNIX host\&.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | .TP
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| 65 | \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8)
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| 66 | The \fBsmbpasswd\fR command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers\&.
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| 68 | .TP
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| 69 | \fBsmbcacls\fR(1)
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| 70 | The \fBsmbcacls\fR command is a tool to set ACL's on remote CIFS servers\&.
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| 72 | .TP
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| 73 | \fBsmbsh\fR(1)
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| 74 | The \fBsmbsh\fR command is a program that allows you to run a unix shell with with an overloaded VFS\&.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | .TP
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| 77 | \fBsmbtree\fR(1)
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| 78 | The \fBsmbtree\fR command is a text\-based network neighborhood tool\&.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | .TP
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| 81 | \fBsmbtar\fR(1)
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| 82 | The \fBsmbtar\fR can make backups of data on CIFS/SMB servers\&.
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| 83 |
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| 84 | .TP
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| 85 | \fBsmbspool\fR(8)
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| 86 | \fBsmbspool\fR is a helper utility for printing on printers connected to CIFS servers\&.
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| 87 |
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| 88 | .TP
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| 89 | \fBsmbcontrol\fR(1)
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| 90 | \fBsmbcontrol\fR is a utility that can change the behaviour of running samba daemons\&.
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| 91 |
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| 92 | .TP
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| 93 | \fBrpcclient\fR(1)
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| 94 | \fBrpcclient\fR is a utility that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote CIFS servers\&.
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| 96 | .TP
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| 97 | \fBpdbedit\fR(8)
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| 98 | The \fBpdbedit\fR command can be used to maintain the local user database on a samba server\&.
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| 99 |
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| 100 | .TP
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| 101 | \fBfindsmb\fR(1)
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| 102 | The \fBfindsmb\fR command can be used to find SMB servers on the local network\&.
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| 104 | .TP
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| 105 | \fBnet\fR(8)
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| 106 | The \fBnet\fR command is supposed to work similar to the DOS/Windows NET\&.EXE command\&.
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| 108 | .TP
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| 109 | \fBswat\fR(8)
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| 110 | \fBswat\fR is a web\-based interface to configuring \fIsmb\&.conf\fR\&.
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| 112 | .TP
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| 113 | \fBwinbindd\fR(8)
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| 114 | \fBwinbindd\fR is a daemon that is used for integrating authentication and the user database into unix\&.
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| 116 | .TP
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| 117 | \fBwbinfo\fR(1)
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| 118 | \fBwbinfo\fR is a utility that retrieves and stores information related to winbind\&.
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| 120 | .TP
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| 121 | \fBprofiles\fR(1)
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| 122 | \fBprofiles\fR is a command\-line utility that can be used to replace all occurences of a certain SID with another SID\&.
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| 124 | .TP
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| 125 | \fBlog2pcap\fR(1)
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| 126 | \fBlog2pcap\fR is a utility for generating pcap trace files from Samba log files\&.
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| 128 | .TP
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| 129 | \fBvfstest\fR(1)
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| 130 | \fBvfstest\fR is a utility that can be used to test vfs modules\&.
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| 132 | .TP
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| 133 | \fBntlm_auth\fR(1)
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| 134 | \fBntlm_auth\fR is a helper\-utility for external programs wanting to do NTLM\-authentication\&.
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| 135 |
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| 136 | .TP
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| 137 | \fBsmbmount\fR(8), \fBsmbumount\fR(8), \fBsmbmnt\fR(8)
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| 138 | \fBsmbmount\fR,\fBsmbumount\fR and \fBsmbmnt\fR are commands that can be used to mount CIFS/SMB shares on Linux\&.
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| 140 | .TP
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| 141 | \fBsmbcquotas\fR(1)
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| 142 | \fBsmbcquotas\fR is a tool that can set remote QUOTA's on server with NTFS 5\&.
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| 143 |
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| 144 | .SH "COMPONENTS"
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| 145 |
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| 146 | .PP
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| 147 | The Samba suite is made up of several components\&. Each component is described in a separate manual page\&. It is strongly recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba and the manual pages of those components that you use\&. If the manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visithttp://devel\&.samba\&.org for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch\&.
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| 148 |
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| 149 | .PP
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| 150 | If you require help, visit the Samba webpage athttp://www\&.samba\&.org/ and explore the many option available to you\&.
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| 151 |
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| 152 | .SH "AVAILABILITY"
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| 153 |
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| 154 | .PP
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| 155 | The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public License(GPL)\&. A copy of that license should have come with the package in the file COPYING\&. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but please obey the terms of this license\&.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | .PP
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| 158 | The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via anonymous ftp from samba\&.org in the directory pub/samba/\&. It is also available on several mirror sites worldwide\&.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | .PP
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| 161 | You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup comp\&.protocol\&.smb and the Samba mailing list\&. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba\&.
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| 162 |
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| 163 | .PP
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| 164 | If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Mozilla or Konqueror) then you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues of the Samba mailing list, athttp://lists\&.samba\&.org\&.
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| 165 |
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| 166 | .SH "VERSION"
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| 167 |
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| 168 | .PP
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| 169 | This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
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| 170 |
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| 171 | .SH "CONTRIBUTIONS"
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| 172 |
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| 173 | .PP
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| 174 | If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list athttp://lists\&.samba\&.org\&.
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| 175 |
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| 176 | .PP
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| 177 | If you have patches to submit, visithttp://devel\&.samba\&.org/ for information on how to do it properly\&. We prefer patches in \fBdiff \-u\fR format\&.
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| 178 |
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| 179 | .SH "CONTRIBUTORS"
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| 180 |
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| 181 | .PP
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| 182 | Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba users\&. To see a full list, look at the\fIchange\-log\fR in the source package for the pre\-CVS changes and at http://cvs\&.samba\&.org/ for the contributors to Samba post\-CVS\&. CVS is the Open Source source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba\&. The project would have been unmanageable without it\&.
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| 183 |
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| 184 | .SH "AUTHOR"
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| 185 |
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| 186 | .PP
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| 187 | The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell\&. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed\&.
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| 188 |
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| 189 | .PP
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| 190 | The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer\&. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2\&.2 was done by Gerald Carter\&. The conversion to DocBook XML 4\&.2 for Samba 3\&.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy\&.
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