samba — A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
samba
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This 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.
The smbd daemon provides the file and print services to 
		SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 
		for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file 
		for this daemon is described in smb.conf(5)
		
The nmbd
		daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
		support. The configuration file for this daemon 
		is described in smb.conf(5)
The smbclient
		program implements a simple ftp-like client. This 
		is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
		servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used 
		to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to 
		any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).
The testparm
		utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's smb.conf(5) configuration file.
The testprns
		utility supports testing printer names defined 
		in your printcap file used 
		by Samba.
The smbstatus
		tool provides access to information about the 
		current connections to smbd.
The nmblookup
		tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made 
		from a UNIX host.
The smbpasswd
		command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT 
		password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.
The smbcacls command is 
		a tool to set ACL's on remote CIFS servers. 
The smbsh command is 
		a program that allows you to run a unix shell with 
		with an overloaded VFS.
The smbtree command 
		is a text-based network neighborhood tool.
The smbtar can make 
		backups of data on CIFS/SMB servers.
smbspool is a 
		helper utility for printing on printers connected 
		to CIFS servers. 
smbcontrol is a utility
		that can change the behaviour of running samba daemons.
		
rpcclient is a utility
		that can be used to execute RPC commands on remote 
		CIFS servers.
The pdbedit command 
		can be used to maintain the local user database on 
		a samba server.
The findsmb command 
		can be used to find SMB servers on the local network.
		
The net command 
		is supposed to work similar to the DOS/Windows
		NET.EXE command.
swat is a web-based
		interface to configuring smb.conf.
		
winbindd is a daemon 
		that is used for integrating authentication and 
		the user database into unix.
wbinfo is a utility 
		that retrieves and stores information related to winbind.
		
profiles is a command-line
		utility that can be used to replace all occurences of 
		a certain SID with another SID.
		
log2pcap is a utility 
				for generating pcap trace files from Samba log 
				files.
vfstest is a utility
		that can be used to test vfs modules.
ntlm_auth is a helper-utility
		for external programs wanting to do NTLM-authentication.
		
smbmount,smbumount and smbmnt are commands that can be used to 
		mount CIFS/SMB shares on Linux.
		
smbcquotas is a tool that 
		can set remote QUOTA's on server with NTFS 5. 
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 http://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 http://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 via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several mirror sites worldwide.
You may also find useful information about Samba on the newsgroup comp.protocol.smb and the Samba mailing list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in the README file that comes with Samba.
If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Mozilla or Konqueror) then you will also find lots of useful information, including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at http://lists.samba.org.
If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org.
If you have patches to submit, visit
	http://devel.samba.org/
	for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches 
	in diff -u 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 
	http://cvs.samba.org/
	for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS 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.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.