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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)

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)

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)

The nmbd daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing support​. The configuration file for this daemon is described in smb.conf(5)​.

winbindd(8)

winbindd is a daemon that is used for integrating authentication and the user database into unix​.

smbclient(1)

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)

The samba-tool is the main Samba Administration tool regarding Active Directory services​.

testparm(1)

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)

The smbstatus tool provides access to information about the current connections to smbd​.

nmblookup(1)

The nmblookup tool allows NetBIOS name queries to be made​.

smbpasswd(8)

The smbpasswd command is a tool for setting passwords on local Samba but also on remote SMB servers​.

smbcacls(1)

The smbcacls command is a tool to set ACL's on remote SMB servers​.

smbtree(1)

The smbtree command is a text-based network neighborhood tool​.

smbtar(1)

The smbtar can make backups of data directly from SMB servers​.

smbspool(8)

smbspool is a helper utility for printing on printers connected to SMB servers​.

smbcontrol(1)

smbcontrol is a utility that can change the behaviour of running samba, smbd, nmbd and winbindd daemons​.

rpcclient(1)

rpcclient is a utility that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote SMB servers​.

pdbedit(8)

The pdbedit command can be used to maintain the local user database on a Samba server​.

net(8)

The net command is the main administration tool for Samba member and standalone servers​.

wbinfo(1)

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​.

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​.

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​.

This man page is part of version 4​.25​.0 of the Samba suite​.

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 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​.

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​.