samba-mirror/source4/smbd/samba.8.xml

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<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
	<refname>samba</refname>
	<refpurpose>server to provide filesharing- and directory services to clients</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis>
		<command>samba</command>
		<arg choice="opt">-i</arg>
		<arg choice="opt">-M model</arg>
	</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
	<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
	<para>This program is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

	<para><command>samba</command> is the server daemon that 
	provides filesharing and directory services to Windows clients. 
	The server provides filespace and directory services to
	clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol and other 
	related protocols such as DCE/RPC, LDAP and Kerberos. 
	</para>

	<para>
	Clients supported include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for 
	Workgroups, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003, 
	OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh, and cifsfs for Linux.</para>

	<para>An extensive description of the services that the 
	server can provide is given in the man page for the 
	configuration file controlling the attributes of those 
	services (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  This man page will not describe the 
	services, but will concentrate on the administrative aspects 
	of running the server.</para>

	<para>Please note that there are significant security 
	implications to running this server, and the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page should be regarded as mandatory reading before 
	proceeding with installation.</para>

	<para>As of Samba 4, there is a single daemon that incorporates the 
		functionality of both smbd and nmbd that are present in older versions 
		of Samba.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>OPTIONS</title>

	<variablelist>
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-i</term>
		<listitem><para>If this parameter is specified it causes the
		server to run "interactively", not as a daemon, even if the
		server is executed on the command line of a shell. Setting this
		parameter negates the implicit deamon mode when run from the
		command line. <command>samba</command> also logs to standard
		output, as if the <command>-S</command> parameter had been
		given.
		</para></listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term>-M model</term>
		<listitem><para>This parameter can be used to specify the 
		&quot;process model&quot; samba should use. This determines 
		how concurrent clients are handled. Available process 
		models include <emphasis>single</emphasis> (everything in 
		a single process), <emphasis>standard</emphasis> (similar 
		behaviour to that of Samba 3), <emphasis>thread</emphasis> 
		(single process, different threads.
		</para></listitem>
		</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>FILES</title>

	<variablelist>
		<varlistentry>
		<term><filename>/etc/rc</filename></term>
		<listitem><para>or whatever initialization script your 
		system uses).</para>

		<para>If running the server as a daemon at startup, 
		this file will need to contain an appropriate startup 
		sequence for the server. </para></listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
		<listitem><para>If running the server via the 
		meta-daemon <command>inetd</command>, this file 
		must contain a mapping of service name (e.g., netbios-ssn) 
		to service port (e.g., 139) and protocol type (e.g., tcp). 
		</para></listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		
		<varlistentry>
		<term><filename>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename></term>
		<listitem><para>This is the default location of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> server configuration file. Other common places that systems 
		install this file are <filename>/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</filename> 
		and <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>.</para>
		
		<para>This file describes all the services the server 
		is to make available to clients. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</para>
		</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>VERSION</title>

	<para>This man page is correct for version 4 of 
	the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>

	<para>Most diagnostics issued by the server are logged 
	in a specified log file. The log file name is specified 
	at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.</para>

	<para>The number and nature of diagnostics available depends 
	on the debug level used by the server. If you have problems, set 
	the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.</para>

	<para>Most messages are reasonably self-explanatory. Unfortunately, 
	at the time this man page was created, there are too many diagnostics 
	available in the source code to warrant describing each and every 
	diagnostic. At this stage your best bet is still to grep the 
	source code and inspect the conditions that gave rise to the 
	diagnostics you are seeing.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>SEE ALSO</title>
	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_access</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and the 
	Internet RFC's	<filename>rfc1001.txt</filename>, <filename>rfc1002.txt</filename>. 
	In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available 
	as a link from the Web page <ulink noescape="1" url="http://samba.org/cifs/"> 
	http://samba.org/cifs/</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>

<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>
	
</refsect1>

</refentry>