SAMBA
Section: Miscellanea (7)
Updated: 10/10/2023
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NAME
samba - A Windows AD and SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
SYNOPSIS
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- 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 and provides Active Directory services. The first version of the SMB protocol is sometimes also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a more thorough description, see
http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/. Samba also implements the NetBIOS protocol in nmbd.
samba(8)
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The
samba
daemon provides the Active Directory services and file and print services to SMB clients. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf(5).
smbd(8)
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The
smbd
daemon provides the file and print services to SMB clients. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf(5).
nmbd(8)
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The
nmbd
daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing support. The configuration file for this daemon is described in
smb.conf(5).
winbindd(8)
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winbindd
is a daemon that is used for integrating authentication and the user database into unix.
smbclient(1)
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The
smbclient
program implements a simple ftp-like client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible SMB servers, and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to any SMB server.
samba-tool(8)
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The
samba-tool
is the main Samba Administration tool regarding Active Directory services.
testparm(1)
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The
testparm
utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's
smb.conf(5)
configuration file. In AD server mode
samba-tool testparm
should be used though.
smbstatus(1)
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The
smbstatus
tool provides access to information about the current connections to
smbd.
nmblookup(1)
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The
nmblookup
tool allows NetBIOS name queries to be made.
smbpasswd(8)
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The
smbpasswd
command is a tool for setting passwords on local Samba but also on remote SMB servers.
smbcacls(1)
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The
smbcacls
command is a tool to set ACL's on remote SMB servers.
smbtree(1)
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The
smbtree
command is a text-based network neighborhood tool.
smbtar(1)
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The
smbtar
can make backups of data directly from SMB servers.
smbspool(8)
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smbspool
is a helper utility for printing on printers connected to SMB servers.
smbcontrol(1)
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smbcontrol
is a utility that can change the behaviour of running
samba,
smbd,
nmbd
and
winbindd
daemons.
rpcclient(1)
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rpcclient
is a utility that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote SMB servers.
pdbedit(8)
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The
pdbedit
command can be used to maintain the local user database on a Samba server.
net(8)
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The
net
command is the main administration tool for Samba member and standalone servers.
wbinfo(1)
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wbinfo
is a utility that retrieves and stores information related to winbind.
profiles(1)
-
profiles
is a command-line utility that can be used to replace all occurrences of a certain SID with another SID.
log2pcap(1)
-
log2pcap
is a utility for generating pcap trace files from Samba log files.
vfstest(1)
-
vfstest
is a utility that can be used to test vfs modules.
ntlm_auth(1)
-
ntlm_auth
is a helper-utility for external programs wanting to do NTLM-authentication.
smbcquotas(1)
-
smbcquotas
is a tool to manage quotas on remote SMB 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 and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
https://devel.samba.org
for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.
If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
https://www.samba.org/
and explore the many option available to you.
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 from
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/.
The Samba Wiki at
https://wiki.samba.org
has also a lot of useful information. On the Samba mailing list at
https://lists.samba.org
you can find a lot of information in the archives and you can subscribe to the samba list and ask for help or discuss things.
VERSION
This man page is part of version 4.17.12-Debian of the Samba suite.
CONTRIBUTIONS
If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
https://lists.samba.org.
If you have patches to submit, visit
https://devel.samba.org/
for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches in
git format-patch
format.
CONTRIBUTORS
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 the
change-log
in the source package for the pre-CVS changes and at
https://git.samba.org/
for the contributors to Samba post-GIT. GIT is the Open Source source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.
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.
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