1SAMBA(7) Miscellanea SAMBA(7)
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6 samba - A Windows AD and SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
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9 samba
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12 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
13 the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for
14 UNIX systems and provides Active Directory services. This protocol is
15 sometimes also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS).
16 For a more thorough description, see http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/. Samba
17 also implements the NetBIOS protocol in nmbd.
18 samba(8)
20 The samba daemon provides the Active Directory services and file
21 and print services to SMB clients. The configuration file for this
22 daemon is described in smb.conf(5).
23 smbd(8)
25 The smbd daemon provides the file and print services to SMB
26 clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups
27 or LanManager. The configuration file for this daemon is described
28 in smb.conf(5).
29 nmbd(8)
31 The nmbd daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing support.
32 The configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf(5).
33 winbindd(8)
35 winbindd is a daemon that is used for integrating authentication
36 and the user database into unix.
37 smbclient(1)
39 The smbclient program implements a simple ftp-like client. This is
40 useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible servers (such
41 as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print
42 to a printer attached to any SMB server (such as a PC running
43 Windows NT).
44 samba-tool(8)
46 The samba-tool is the main Samba Administration tool regarding
47 Active Directory services.
48 testparm(1)
50 The testparm utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba´s
51 smb.conf(5) configuration file.
52 smbstatus(1)
54 The smbstatus tool provides access to information about the current
55 connections to smbd.
56 nmblookup(1)
58 The nmblookup tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made from a
59 UNIX host.
60 smbpasswd(8)
62 The smbpasswd command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
63 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
64 smbcacls(1)
66 The smbcacls command is a tool to set ACL´s on remote CIFS servers.
67 smbtree(1)
69 The smbtree command is a text-based network neighborhood tool.
70 smbtar(1)
72 The smbtar can make backups of data on CIFS/SMB servers.
73 smbspool(8)
75 smbspool is a helper utility for printing on printers connected to
76 CIFS servers.
77 smbcontrol(1)
79 smbcontrol is a utility that can change the behaviour of running
80 smbd, nmbd and winbindd daemons.
81 rpcclient(1)
83 rpcclient is a utility that can be used to execute RPC commands on
84 remote CIFS servers.
85 pdbedit(8)
87 The pdbedit command can be used to maintain the local user database
88 on a samba server.
89 findsmb(1)
91 The findsmb command can be used to find SMB servers on the local
92 network.
93 net(8)
95 The net command is supposed to work similar to the DOS/Windows
96 NET.EXE command.
97 wbinfo(1)
99 wbinfo is a utility that retrieves and stores information related
100 to winbind.
101 profiles(1)
103 profiles is a command-line utility that can be used to replace all
104 occurrences of a certain SID with another SID.
105 log2pcap(1)
107 log2pcap is a utility for generating pcap trace files from Samba
108 log files.
109 vfstest(1)
111 vfstest is a utility that can be used to test vfs modules.
112 ntlm_auth(1)
114 ntlm_auth is a helper-utility for external programs wanting to do
115 NTLM-authentication.
116 smbcquotas(1)
118 smbcquotas is a tool that can set remote QUOTA´s on server with
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122 The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each component is
123 described in a separate manual page. It is strongly recommended that
124 you read the documentation that comes with Samba and the manual pages
125 of those components that you use. If the manual pages and documents
126 aren´t clear enough then please visit http://devel.samba.org for
127 information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.
128 If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at http://www.samba.org/
130 and explore the many option available to you.
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133 The Samba software suite is licensed under the GNU Public License(GPL).
134 A copy of that license should have come with the package in the file
135 COPYING. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite,
136 but please obey the terms of this license.
137 The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via anonymous ftp
139 from samba.org in the directory pub/samba/. It is also available on
140 several mirror sites worldwide.
141 You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup
143 comp.protocol.smb and the Samba mailing list. Details on how to join
144 the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba.
145 If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Mozilla or Konqueror) then
147 you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues of
148 the Samba mailing list, at http://lists.samba.org.
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151 This man page is correct for version 4 of the Samba suite.
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154 If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join
155 the Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org.
156 If you have patches to submit, visit http://devel.samba.org/ for
158 information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in git
159 format-patch format.
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162 Contributors to the project are now too numerous to mention here but
163 all deserve the thanks of all Samba users. To see a full list, look at
164 the change-log in the source package for the pre-CVS changes and at
165 http://git.samba.org/ for the contributors to Samba post-GIT. GIT is
166 the Open Source source code control system used by the Samba Team to
167 develop Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
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170 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
171 Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
172 Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
173 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
175 sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
176 Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and
177 updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
178 DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
179 DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
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