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NAME

       smbd - server to provide SMB/CIFS services to clients

SYNOPSIS

       smbd [-D] [-F] [-S] [-i] [-h] [-V] [-b] [-d <debug level>]
        [-l <log directory>] [-p <port number(s)>] [-P <profiling level>]
        [-O <socket option>] [-s <configuration file>]

DESCRIPTION

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

       smbd is the server daemon that provides filesharing and printing
       services to Windows clients. The server provides filespace and printer
       services to clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol. This is
       compatible with the LanManager protocol, and can service LanManager
       clients. These include MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS, Windows for Workgroups,
       Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, OS/2, DAVE for Macintosh,
       and smbfs 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.

       A session is created whenever a client requests one. Each client gets a
       copy of the server for each session. This copy then services all
       connections made by the client during that session. When all
       connections from its client are closed, the copy of the server for that
       client terminates.

       The configuration file, and any files that it includes, are
       automatically reloaded every minute, if they change. You can force a
       reload by sending a SIGHUP to the server. Reloading the configuration
       file will not affect connections to any service that is already
       established. Either the user will have to disconnect from the service,
       or smbd killed and restarted.

OPTIONS

       -D
           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 port. Operating the server as
           a daemon is the recommended way of running smbd for servers that
           provide more than casual use file and print services. This switch
           is assumed if smbd is executed on the command line of a shell.

       -F
           If specified, this parameter causes the main smbd process to not
           daemonize, i.e. double-fork and disassociate with the terminal.
           Child processes are still created as normal to service each
           connection request, but the main process does not exit. This
           operation mode is suitable for running smbd under process
           supervisors such as supervise and svscan from Daniel J. Bernstein's
           daemontools package, or the AIX process monitor.

       -S
           If specified, this parameter causes smbd to log to standard output
           rather than a file.

       -i
           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.  smbd also
           logs to standard output, as if the -S parameter had been given.

       -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
           smb.conf.html# 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.

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

       -b
           Prints information about how Samba was built.

       -p|--port<port number(s)>
           port number(s) is a space or comma-separated list of TCP ports smbd
           should listen on. The default value is taken from the ports
           parameter in smb.conf

           The default ports are 139 (used for SMB over NetBIOS over TCP) and
           port 445 (used for plain SMB over TCP).

       -P|--profiling-level<profiling level>
           profiling level is a number specifying the level of profiling data
           to be collected. 0 turns off profiling, 1 turns on counter
           profiling only, 2 turns on complete profiling, and 3 resets all
           profiling data.

FILES

       /etc/inetd.conf
           If the server is to be run by the inetd meta-daemon, this file must
           contain suitable startup information for the meta-daemon.

       /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).

       /etc/samba/smb.conf
           This is the default location of the smb.conf(5) +server
           configuration file.

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

LIMITATIONS

       On some systems smbd cannot change uid back to root after a setuid()
       call. Such systems are called trapdoor uid systems. If you have such a
       system, you will be unable to connect from a client (such as a PC) as
       two different users at once. Attempts to connect the second user will
       result in access denied or similar.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       PRINTER
           If no printer name is specified to printable services, most systems
           will use the value of this variable (or lp if this variable is not
           defined) as the name of the printer to use. This is not specific to
           the server, however.

PAM INTERACTION

       Samba uses PAM for authentication (when presented with a plaintext
       password), for account checking (is this account disabled?) and for
       session management. The degree too which samba supports PAM is
       restricted by the limitations of the SMB protocol and the obey pam
       restrictions smb.conf(5) paramater. When this is set, the following
       restrictions apply:

       o   Account Validation: All accesses to a samba server are checked
           against PAM to see if the account is vaild, not disabled and is
           permitted to login at this time. This also applies to encrypted
           logins.

       o   Session Management: When not using share level secuirty, users must
           pass PAM's session checks before access is granted. Note however,
           that this is bypassed in share level secuirty. Note also that some
           older pam configuration files may need a line added for session
           support.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.

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.

TDB FILES

       Samba stores it's data in several TDB (Trivial Database) files, usually
       located in /var/lib/samba.

       (*) information persistent across restarts (but not necessarily
       important to backup).

       account_policy.tdb*
           NT account policy settings such as pw expiration, etc...

       brlock.tdb
           byte range locks

       browse.dat
           browse lists

       connections.tdb
           share connections (used to enforce max connections, etc...)

       gencache.tdb
           generic caching db

       group_mapping.tdb*
           group mapping information

       locking.tdb
           share modes & oplocks

       login_cache.tdb*
           bad pw attempts

       messages.tdb
           Samba messaging system

       netsamlogon_cache.tdb*
           cache of user net_info_3 struct from net_samlogon() request (as a
           domain member)

       ntdrivers.tdb*
           installed printer drivers

       ntforms.tdb*
           installed printer forms

       ntprinters.tdb*
           installed printer information

       printing/
           directory containing tdb per print queue of cached lpq output

       registry.tdb
           Windows registry skeleton (connect via regedit.exe)

       sessionid.tdb
           session information (e.g. support for 'utmp = yes')

       share_info.tdb*
           share acls

       winbindd_cache.tdb
           winbindd's cache of user lists, etc...

       winbindd_idmap.tdb*
           winbindd's local idmap db

       wins.dat*
           wins database when 'wins support = yes'

SIGNALS

       Sending the smbd a SIGHUP will cause it to reload its smb.conf
       configuration file within a short period of time.

       To shut down a user's smbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9)
       NOT be used, except as a last resort, as this may leave the shared
       memory area in an inconsistent state. The safe way to terminate an smbd
       is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own.

       The debug log level of smbd may be raised or lowered using
       smbcontrol(1) program (SIGUSR[1|2] signals are no longer used since
       Samba 2.2). This is to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst
       still running at a normally low log level.

       Note that as the signal handlers send a debug write, they are not
       re-entrant in smbd. This you should wait until smbd is in a state of
       waiting for an incoming SMB before issuing them. It is possible to make
       the signal handlers safe by un-blocking the signals before the select
       call and re-blocking them after, however this would affect performance.

SEE ALSO

       hosts_access(5), inetd(8), nmbd(8), smb.conf(5), smbclient(1),
       testparm(1), testprns(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.

       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.