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SAMBA(7)


NAME

  SAMBA - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX


SYNOPSIS

  Samba


DESCRIPTION

  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), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.

  smbd The smbd	 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
       smb.conf

  nmbd The nmbd daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing support. The
       configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf

  smbclient
       The smbclient 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).

  testparm
       The testparm utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
       smb.confconfiguration file.

  testprns
       The testprns utility supports testing printer names defined in your
       printcap> file used by Samba.

  smbstatus
       The smbstatus tool provides access to information about the current
       connections to smbd.

  nmblookup
       The nmblookup tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made from a UNIX
       host.

  make_smbcodepage
       The make_smbcodepage utility provides a means of creating SMB code
       page definition files for your smbd server.

  smbpasswd
       The smbpasswd command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
       password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.


COMPONENTS

  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 aren't clear enough then
  please send a patch or bug report to	samba@samba.org
  <URL:mailto:samba@samba.org>


AVAILABILITY

  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.

  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.

  You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup
  comp.protocol.smb <URL:news:comp.protocols.smb> and the Samba mailing list.
  Details on how to join the mailing list are given in the README file that
  comes with Samba.

  If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Netscape or Mosaic) then you
  will also find lots of useful information, including back issues of the
  Samba mailing list, at http://lists.samba.org
  <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.


VERSION

  This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.


CONTRIBUTIONS

  If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join the
  Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org <URL:http://lists.samba.org/>.

  If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them
  directly to samba-patches@samba.org.	Note, however, that due to the
  enormous popularity of this package the Samba Team may take some time to
  respond to mail. We prefer patches in diff -u format.


CONTRIBUTORS

  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
  ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log
  <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log> for the pre-CVS changes
  and at  ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log
  <URL:ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log> 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.

  In addition, several commercial organizations now help fund the Samba Team
  with money and equipment. For details see the Samba Web pages at
  http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html


AUTHOR

  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.

  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/
  <URL: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

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