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SAMBA(8)		  System Administration tools		      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.

Samba 4.0			  04/04/2014			      SAMBA(8)
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