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SAMBA(7)						 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 some-
       times also referred to as the Common Internet File  System
       (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol.

       smbd   The  smbd	 daemon	 provides the file and print ser-
	      vices to SMB clients, such as Windows  95/98,  Win-
	      dows  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

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	      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 informa-
       tion, 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 pack-
       age  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  men-
       tion  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

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       <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 con-
       tributors 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, avail-
       able	     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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