samba(8)


NAME

   samba - Server to provide AD and SMB/CIFS services to clients

SYNOPSIS

   samba [-D] [-i] [-M <model>] [--maximum-runtime=<seconds>] [-b]
    [--help] [--usage] [-d <debug level>] [--debug-stderr]
    [-s <configuration file>] [--option=<smb_conf_param>=<value>]
    [-l <log directory>] [--leak-report] [--leak-report-full] [-V]

DESCRIPTION

   This program is part of the samba(7) suite.

   samba is the server daemon that provides Active Directory, filesharing
   and printing services to 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.

   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.

   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 smb.conf(5). This man page will not
   describe the services, but will concentrate on the administrative
   aspects of running the server.

   Please note that there are significant security implications to running
   this server, and the smb.conf(5) manual page should be regarded as
   mandatory reading before proceeding with installation.

OPTIONS

   -D|--daemon
       If specified, this parameter causes the server to operate as a
       daemon. That is, it detaches itself and runs in the background,
       fielding requests on the appropriate ports. Operating the server as
       a daemon is the recommended way of running samba for servers that
       provide more than casual use file and print services. This switch
       is assumed if samba is executed on the command line of a shell.

   -i|--interactive
       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 daemon mode when run from the command line.  samba also
       logs to standard output, as if the -S parameter had been given.

   -M model
       This parameter can be used to specify the "process model" samba
       should use. This determines how concurrent clients are handled.
       Available process models include single (everything in a single
       process), standard (similar behaviour to that of Samba 3), thread
       (single process, different threads.

   --maximum-runtime=seconds
       Set maximum runtime of the server process till autotermination in
       seconds.

   -b|--show-build
       Print information about how Samba was built.

   --usage
       Display brief usage message.

   --debug-stderr
       Send debug output to STDERR.

   --leak-report
       Enable talloc leak reporting on exit.

   --leak-report-full
       Enable full talloc leak reporting on exit.

   -d|--debuglevel=level
       level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
       parameter is not specified is 0.

       The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
       files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical
       errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable
       level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
       information about operations carried out.

       Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and
       should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3
       are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts
       of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

       Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log
       level parameter in the smb.conf file.

   -V|--version
       Prints the program version number.

   -s|--configfile=<configuration file>
       The file specified contains the configuration details required by
       the server. The information in this file includes server-specific
       information such as what printcap file to use, as well as
       descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide. See
       smb.conf for more information. The default configuration file name
       is determined at compile time.

   -l|--log-basename=logdirectory
       Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname"
       will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
       file is never removed by the client.

   --option=<name>=<value>
       Set the smb.conf(5) option "<name>" to value "<value>" from the
       command line. This overrides compiled-in defaults and options read
       from the configuration file.

   -?|--help
       Print a summary of command line options.

   --usage
       Display brief usage message.

FILES

   /etc/rc
       or whatever initialization script your system uses.

       If running the server as a daemon at startup, this file will need
       to contain an appropriate startup sequence for the server.

   /etc/services
       If running the server via the meta-daemon inetd, 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).

   /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
       This is the default location of the smb.conf(5) server
       configuration file. Other common places that systems install this
       file are /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf.

       This file describes all the services the server is to make
       available to clients. See smb.conf(5) for more information.

DIAGNOSTICS

   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.

   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.

   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.

VERSION

   This man page is correct for version 4 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

   hosts_access(5) smb.conf(5), smbclient(8), samba-tool(8), smbd(8),
   nmbd(8), winbindd(1), and the Internet RFC's rfc1001.txt, rfc1002.txt.
   In addition the CIFS (formerly SMB) specification is available as a
   link from the Web page http://samba.org/cifs/.

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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