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<refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
        <refname>samba</refname>
        <refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
        <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>samba</command>
                <arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
                <arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
        </cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
        <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
        <para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

        <para><command>samba</command> is the server daemon that 
        provides filesharing and directory services to Windows clients. 
        The server provides filespace and directory services to
        clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol and other 
        related protocols such as DCE/RPC, LDAP and Kerberos. 
        </para>

        <para>
        Clients supported include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for 
        Workgroups, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003, 
        OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh, and cifsfs for Linux.</para>

        <para>An extensive description of the services that the 
        server can provide is given in the man page for the 
        configuration file controlling the attributes of those 
        services (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  This man page will not describe the 
        services, but will concentrate on the administrative aspects 
        of running the server.</para>

        <para>Please note that there are significant security 
        implications to running this server, and the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page should be regarded as mandatory reading before 
        proceeding with installation.</para>

        <para>As of Samba 4, there is a single daemon that incorporates the 
                functionality of both smbd and nmbd that are present in older versions 
                of Samba.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>OPTIONS</title>

        <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                <term>-i</term>
                <listitem><para>If this parameter is specified it causes the
                server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if the
                server is executed on the command line of a shell. Setting this
                parameter negates the implicit deamon mode when run from the
                command line. <command>samba</command> also logs to standard
                output, as if the <command>-S</command> parameter had been
                given.
                </para></listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                
                <varlistentry>
                <term>-M model</term>
                <listitem><para>This parameter can be used to specify the 
                &quot;process model&quot; samba should use. This determines 
                how concurrent clients are handled. Available process 
                models include <emphasis>single</emphasis> (everything in 
                a single process), <emphasis>standard</emphasis> (similar 
                behaviour to that of Samba 3), <emphasis>thread</emphasis> 
                (single process, different threads.
                </para></listitem>
                </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>FILES</title>

        <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                <term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
                <listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your 
                system uses).</para>

                <para>If running the server as a daemon at startup, 
                this file will need to contain an appropriate startup 
                sequence for the server. </para></listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                
                <varlistentry>
                <term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
                <listitem><para>If running the server via the 
                meta-daemon <command>inetd</command>, this file 
                must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn) 
                to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp). 
                </para></listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                
                <varlistentry>
                <term><filename>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename></term>
                <listitem><para>This is the default location of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> server configuration file. Other common places that systems 
                install this file are <filename>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename> 
                and <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>.</para>
                
                <para>This file describes all the services the server 
                is to make available to clients. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</para>
                </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>VERSION</title>

        <para>This man page is correct for version 4 of 
        the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>

        <para>Most diagnostics issued by the server are logged 
        in a specified log file. The log file name is specified 
        at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.</para>

        <para>The number and nature of diagnostics available depends 
        on the debug level used by the server. If you have problems, set 
        the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.</para>

        <para>Most messages are reasonably self-explanatory. Unfortunately, 
        at the time this man page was created, there are too many diagnostics 
        available in the source code to warrant describing each and every 
        diagnostic. At this stage your best bet is still to grep the 
        source code and inspect the conditions that gave rise to the 
        diagnostics you are seeing.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>SEE ALSO</title>
        <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_access</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and the 
        Internet RFC's  <filename>rfc1001.txt</filename>, <filename>rfc1002.txt</filename>. 
        In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available 
        as a link from the Web page <ulink noescape="1" url="http://samba.org/cifs/"> 
        http://samba.org/cifs/</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>AUTHOR</title>
        
        <para>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.</para>
        
</refsect1>

</refentry>