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<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
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<refnamediv>
	<refname>SAMBA</refname>
	<refpurpose>A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis><command>Samba</command></cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
	<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
	
	<para>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.</para>
	
	<variablelist>
		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>smbd</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>smbd </command>
		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 <filename>smb.conf</filename>
		</para></listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>nmbd</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>nmbd</command>
		daemon provides NetBIOS nameserving and browsing
		support. The configuration file for this daemon 
		is described in <filename>smb.conf</filename></para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>smbclient</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>smbclient</command>
		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).</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>testparm</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>testparm</command>
		utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
		<filename>smb.conf</filename>configuration file.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>testprns</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>testprns</command>
		utility supports testing printer names defined 
		in your <filename>printcap></filename> file used 
		by Samba.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>smbstatus</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>smbstatus</command>
		tool provides access to information about the 
		current connections to <command>smbd</command>.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>nmblookup</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>nmblookup</command>
		tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made 
		from a UNIX host.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>make_smbcodepage</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>make_smbcodepage</command>
		utility provides a means of creating SMB code page 
		definition files for your <command>smbd</command> server.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

		<varlistentry>
		<term><command>smbpasswd</command></term>
		<listitem><para>The <command>smbpasswd</command>
		command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT 
		password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>

	</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>COMPONENTS</title>
	
	<para>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 <ulink url="mailto:samba@samba.org">
	samba@samba.org</ulink></para>
	
	

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>AVAILABILITY</title>
	
	<para>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.</para>

	<para>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.</para>
	
	<para>You may also find useful information about Samba 
	on the newsgroup <ulink url="news:comp.protocols.smb">
	comp.protocol.smb</ulink> and the Samba mailing 
	list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in 
	the README file that comes with Samba.</para>
	
	<para>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
	<ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>VERSION</title>
	
	<para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the 
	Samba suite. </para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>CONTRIBUTIONS</title>
	
	<para>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, 
	then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at 
	<ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.
	</para>

	<para>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 <command>diff -u</command> format.</para>
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<refsect1>
	<title>CONTRIBUTORS</title>
	
	<para>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 <ulink
	url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">
	ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log</ulink>
	for the pre-CVS changes and at <ulink 
	url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log">
	ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log</ulink>
	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.</para>
	
	<para>In addition, several commercial organizations now help 
	fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see 
	the Samba Web pages at <ulink
	url="http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html">
	http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html</ulink>.</para> 
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<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>
	
	<para>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
	<ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
	ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 
	release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for 
	Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>
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