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5.\" Date: 10/25/2016
6.\" Manual: Miscellanea
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10.TH "SAMBA" "7" "10/25/2016" "Samba 4\&.4" "Miscellanea"
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30.SH "NAME"
31samba \- A Windows AD and SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
32.SH "SYNOPSIS"
33.HP \w'\ 'u
34samba
35.SH "DESCRIPTION"
36.PP
37The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems and provides Active Directory services\&. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS)\&. For a more thorough description, see
38http://www\&.ubiqx\&.org/cifs/\&. Samba also implements the NetBIOS protocol in nmbd\&.
39.PP
40\fBsamba\fR(8)
41.RS 4
42The
43samba
44daemon provides the Active Directory services and file and print services to SMB clients\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
45\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)\&.
46.RE
47.PP
48\fBsmbd\fR(8)
49.RS 4
50The
51smbd
52daemon 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
53\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)\&.
54.RE
55.PP
56\fBnmbd\fR(8)
57.RS 4
58The
59nmbd
60daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing support\&. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
61\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)\&.
62.RE
63.PP
64\fBwinbindd\fR(8)
65.RS 4
66winbindd
67is a daemon that is used for integrating authentication and the user database into unix\&.
68.RE
69.PP
70\fBsmbclient\fR(1)
71.RS 4
72The
73smbclient
74program 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)\&.
75.RE
76.PP
77\fBsamba-tool\fR(8)
78.RS 4
79The
80samba\-tool
81is the main Samba Administration tool regarding Active Directory services\&.
82.RE
83.PP
84\fBtestparm\fR(1)
85.RS 4
86The
87testparm
88utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba\*(Aqs
89\fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
90configuration file\&.
91.RE
92.PP
93\fBsmbstatus\fR(1)
94.RS 4
95The
96smbstatus
97tool provides access to information about the current connections to
98smbd\&.
99.RE
100.PP
101\fBnmblookup\fR(1)
102.RS 4
103The
104nmblookup
105tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made from a UNIX host\&.
106.RE
107.PP
108\fBsmbpasswd\fR(8)
109.RS 4
110The
111smbpasswd
112command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers\&.
113.RE
114.PP
115\fBsmbcacls\fR(1)
116.RS 4
117The
118smbcacls
119command is a tool to set ACL\*(Aqs on remote CIFS servers\&.
120.RE
121.PP
122\fBsmbtree\fR(1)
123.RS 4
124The
125smbtree
126command is a text\-based network neighborhood tool\&.
127.RE
128.PP
129\fBsmbtar\fR(1)
130.RS 4
131The
132smbtar
133can make backups of data on CIFS/SMB servers\&.
134.RE
135.PP
136\fBsmbspool\fR(8)
137.RS 4
138smbspool
139is a helper utility for printing on printers connected to CIFS servers\&.
140.RE
141.PP
142\fBsmbcontrol\fR(1)
143.RS 4
144smbcontrol
145is a utility that can change the behaviour of running
146smbd,
147nmbd
148and
149winbindd
150daemons\&.
151.RE
152.PP
153\fBrpcclient\fR(1)
154.RS 4
155rpcclient
156is a utility that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote CIFS servers\&.
157.RE
158.PP
159\fBpdbedit\fR(8)
160.RS 4
161The
162pdbedit
163command can be used to maintain the local user database on a samba server\&.
164.RE
165.PP
166\fBfindsmb\fR(1)
167.RS 4
168The
169findsmb
170command can be used to find SMB servers on the local network\&.
171.RE
172.PP
173\fBnet\fR(8)
174.RS 4
175The
176net
177command is supposed to work similar to the DOS/Windows NET\&.EXE command\&.
178.RE
179.PP
180\fBwbinfo\fR(1)
181.RS 4
182wbinfo
183is a utility that retrieves and stores information related to winbind\&.
184.RE
185.PP
186\fBprofiles\fR(1)
187.RS 4
188profiles
189is a command\-line utility that can be used to replace all occurrences of a certain SID with another SID\&.
190.RE
191.PP
192\fBlog2pcap\fR(1)
193.RS 4
194log2pcap
195is a utility for generating pcap trace files from Samba log files\&.
196.RE
197.PP
198\fBvfstest\fR(1)
199.RS 4
200vfstest
201is a utility that can be used to test vfs modules\&.
202.RE
203.PP
204\fBntlm_auth\fR(1)
205.RS 4
206ntlm_auth
207is a helper\-utility for external programs wanting to do NTLM\-authentication\&.
208.RE
209.PP
210\fBsmbcquotas\fR(1)
211.RS 4
212smbcquotas
213is a tool that can set remote QUOTA\*(Aqs on server with NTFS 5\&.
214.RE
215.SH "COMPONENTS"
216.PP
217The 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\*(Aqt clear enough then please visit
218http://devel\&.samba\&.org
219for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch\&.
220.PP
221If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
222http://www\&.samba\&.org/
223and explore the many option available to you\&.
224.SH "AVAILABILITY"
225.PP
226The 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\&.
227.PP
228The 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\&.
229.PP
230You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup
231comp\&.protocol\&.smb
232and the Samba mailing list\&. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba\&.
233.PP
234If 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, at
235http://lists\&.samba\&.org\&.
236.SH "VERSION"
237.PP
238This man page is correct for version 4 of the Samba suite\&.
239.SH "CONTRIBUTIONS"
240.PP
241If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
242http://lists\&.samba\&.org\&.
243.PP
244If you have patches to submit, visit
245http://devel\&.samba\&.org/
246for information on how to do it properly\&. We prefer patches in
247git format\-patch
248format\&.
249.SH "CONTRIBUTORS"
250.PP
251Contributors 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
252change\-log
253in the source package for the pre\-CVS changes and at
254http://git\&.samba\&.org/
255for the contributors to Samba post\-GIT\&. GIT is the Open Source source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba\&. The project would have been unmanageable without it\&.
256.SH "AUTHOR"
257.PP
258The 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\&.
259.PP
260The 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
261ftp://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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