SAMBA(7)
NAME
Samba - a LanManager like fileserver for UNIX
SYNOPSIS
Samba
DESCRIPTION
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that
implements the SMB protocol for UNIX systems. This proto-
col is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or
Netbios protocol.
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 aren't clear enough then
please send me a patch!
The smbd(8) daemon provides the file and print services to
SMB clients, such as Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or
LanManager. The configuration file for this daemon is
described in smb.conf(5).
The nmbd(8) daemon provides Netbios nameserving and brows-
ing support. It can also be run interactively to query
other name service daemons.
The smbclient(1) program implements a simple ftp-like
client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other
compatible servers (such as WfWg), 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 WfWg).
The testparm(1) utility allows you to test your
smb.conf(5) configuration file.
The smbstatus(1) utility allows you to tell who is cur-
rently using the smbd(8) server.
AVAILABILITY
The Samba software suite is licensed under the Gnu Public
License. A copy of that license should have come with the
package. You are encouraged to distribute copies of the
Samba suite, but please keep it intact.
The latest version of the Samba suite can be obtained via
anonymous ftp from samba.anu.edu.au 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.protocols.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 Netscape or
Mosaic) then you will also find lots of useful informa-
tion, including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/
AUTHOR
The main author of the Samba suite is Andrew Tridgell. He
may be contacted via e-mail at samba-
bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
There have also been an enormous number of contributors to
Samba from all over the world. A partial list of these
contributors is included in the CREDITS section below. The
list is, however, badly out of date. More up to date info
may be obtained from the change-log that comes with the
Samba source code.
CONTRIBUTIONS
If you wish to contribute to the Samba project, then I
suggest you join the Samba mailing list.
If you have patches to submit or bugs to report then you
may mail them directly to samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
Note, however, that due to the enormous popularity of this
package I may take some time to repond to mail. I prefer
patches in "diff -u" format.
CREDITS
Contributors to the project are (in alphabetical order by
email address):
(NOTE: This list is very out of date)
Adams, Graham
gadams@ddrive.demon.co.uk
Allison, Jeremy
jeremy@netcom.com
Andrus, Ross
ross@augie.insci.com
Auer, Karl
Karl.Auer@anu.edu.au
Bogstad, Bill
bogstad@cs.jhu.edu
Boreham, Bryan
Bryan@alex.com
Boreham, David
davidb@ndl.co.uk
Butler, Michael
imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au
??? charlie@edina.demon.co.uk
Chua, Michael
lpc@solomon.technet.sg
Cochran, Marc mcochran@wellfleet.com
Dey, Martin N
mnd@netmgrs.co.uk
Errath, Maximilian
errath@balu.kfunigraz.ac.at
Fisher, Lee
leefi@microsoft.com
Foderaro, Sean
jkf@frisky.Franz.COM
Greer, Brad
brad@cac.washington.edu
Griffith, Michael A
grif@cs.ucr.edu
Grosen, Mark
MDGrosen@spectron.COM
????
gunjkoa@dep.sa.gov.au
Haapanen, Tom
tomh@metrics.com
Hench, Mike hench@cae.uwm.edu
Horstman, Mark A
mh2620@sarek.sbc.com
Hudson, Tim
tim.hudson@gslmail.mincom.oz.au
Hulthen, Erik Magnus
magnus@axiom.se
??? imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au
Iversen, Per Steinar
iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no
Kaara, Pasi
ppk@atk.tpo.fi
Karman, Merik
merik@blackadder.dsh.oz.au
Kiff, Martin
mgk@newton.npl.co.uk
Kiick, Chris
cjkiick@flinx.b11.ingr.com
Kukulies, Christoph
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
??? lance@fox.com
Leighton, Luke lkcl@pires.co.uk
Lendecke, Volker
lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de
???
lonnie@itg.ti.com
Mahoney, Paul Thomas
ptm@xact1.xact.com
Mauelshagen, Heinz
mauelsha@ez.da.telekom.de
Merrick, Barry G
bgm@atml.co.uk
Mol, Marcel
marcel@fanout.et.tudeflt.nl
??? njw@cpsg.com.au
??? noses@oink.rhein.de
Owens, John
john@micros.com
Pierson, Jacques
pierson@ketje.enet.dec.com
Powell, Mark
mark@scot1.ucsalf.ac.uk
Reiz, Steven
sreiz@aie.nl
Schlaeger, Joerg
joergs@toppoint.de
S{rkel{, Vesa
vesku@rankki.kcl.fi
Terpstra, John jht@aquasoft.com.au
Tridgell, Andrew
samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
Troyer, Dean
troyer@saifr00.ateng.az.honeywell.com
Wakelin, Ross
rossw@march.co.uk
Wessels, Stefan
SWESSELS@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za
Young, Ian A
iay@threel.co.uk
van der Zwan, Paul
paulzn@olivetti.nl