Samba (7)
Samba
27 Mar 2000
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.
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-bugs@samba.org.
The daemons new to Samba TNG may not have manual pages written yet. If not,
please be patient, help out and write one or read the source.
- smbd
-
The smbd
(8) 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 (5).
- nmbd
-
The nmbd
(8) daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
support. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf (5).
- browserd
-
The browserd(8) daemon controls the domain browse lists. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf (5).
- lsarpcd
-
The lsarpcd(8) daemon provides support for the Local Security Authority,
which is used to resolve account information. The configuration file for
this daemon is described in smb.conf (5).
- netlogond
-
The netlogond(8) daemon provides Authentication services for user
and machine (trust) accounts. The configuration file for this daemon
is described in smb.conf (5).
- samrd
-
The samrd(8) daemon provides management services for accessing
the SAM database. Samba's samedit command makes use of these
services. The configuration file for this daemon
is described in smb.conf (5).
- spoolssd
-
The spoolssd(8) daemon provides NT style print services. The configuration
file for this daemon is described in smb.conf (5).
- srvsvcd
-
The srvsvcd(8) daemon provides services for remote administration
of a server. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf (5).
- svcctld
-
The svcctld(8) daemon provides remote service control services.
The configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf (5).
- winregd
-
The winregd(8) daemon provides remote registry services. Windows' REGEDIT.EXE
and REGEDT32.EXE and Samba's regedit make use of these services.
The configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf (5).
- wkssvcd
-
The wkssvcd(8) daemon provides services like that of Windows NT's Workstation
service. The configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf
(5).
- smbclient
-
The smbclient
(1) 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).
- rpcclient
-
The rpcclient
(8) program is a client that can 'talk' to an
SMB/CIFS MSRPC server. Operations include things like managing a SAM
Database (users, groups and aliases) in the same way as the Windows NT
programs User Manager for Domains and Server Manager for Domains;
managing a remote registry in the same way as the Windows NT programs
REGEDT32.EXE and REGEDIT.EXE; viewing a remote event log (same
as EVENTVWR.EXE).
- samedit
-
The samedit(8) program is a client that implements the SAM database side
of all rpcclient commands. The corresponding NT server programs are
User Manager for Domains and Server Manager for Domains.
- regedit
-
The regedit(8) program is a client that implements the registry editing side
of all rpcclient commands. The corresponding NT server program is
REGEDT32.EXE.
- testparm
-
The testparm
(1) utility allows you to test your smb.conf
(5) configuration file.
- testprns
-
the testprns
(1) utility allows you to test the printers defined
in your printcap file.
- smbstatus
-
The smbstatus
(1) utility allows you list current connections to the
smbd (8) server.
- nmblookup
-
the
nmblookup (1) utility allows NetBIOS name
queries to be made from the UNIX machine.
- make_smbcodepage
-
The
make_smbcodepage (1) utility allows
you to create SMB code page definition files for your smbd
(8) server.
- smbpasswd
-
The smbpasswd
(8) utility allows you to change SMB encrypted
passwords on Samba and Windows NT(tm) servers.
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.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://samba.org/samba/.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite.
CONTRIBUTIONS
If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you
join the Samba mailing list at samba@samba.org. See the
Web page at
http://samba.org/listproc
for details on how to do this.
If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you may mail them
directly to samba-bugs@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.
CREDITS
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
for the pre-CVS changes and at
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-bugs@samba.org. 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/)
and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison.
samba-bugs@samba.org.
This man page was modified March 2000 by Matthew Geddes to include (very basic)
information about the new Samba TNG daemons and support programs.