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SMBD(8)								       SMBD(8)

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)>] [-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 ser‐
       vices to Windows clients. The server  provides  filespace  and  printer
       services	 to clients using the SMB (or CIFS) protocol. This is compati‐
       ble 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  at‐
       tributes of those services (see smb.conf(5). This man page will not de‐
       scribe 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  con‐
       nections	 made  by the client during that session. When all connections
       from its client are closed, the copy of the server for that client ter‐
       minates.

       The  configuration  file, and any files that it includes, are automati‐
       cally 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.  Ei‐
       ther  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 con‐
	      nection request, but the main process does not exit. This opera‐
	      tion mode is suitable for runningsmbd under process  supervisors
	      such  as supervise and svscan from Daniel J. Bernstein's daemon‐
	      tools package, or the AIX process monitor.

       -S     If specified, this parameter causessmbd to log to standard  out‐
	      put rather than a file.

       -i     If  this parameter is specified it causes the server to run "in‐
	      teractively", not as a daemon, even if the server is executed on
	      the  command line of a shell. Setting this parameter negates the
	      implicit deamon mode when run from the command line.  smbd  also
	      logs to standard output, as if the -S parameter had been given.

       -V     Prints the program version number.

       -s <configuration file>
	      The  file	 specified contains the configuration details required
	      by the server. The information in this file includes server-spe‐
	      cific  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.

       -d|--debug=debuglevel
	      debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
	      parameter is not specified is zero.

	      The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
	      files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only crit‐
	      ical  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   pa‐
	      rameter in the smb.conf file.

       -l|--logfile=logdirectory
	      Base  directory  name for log/debug files. The extension ".prog‐
	      name" 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 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).

FILES
       /etc/inetd.conf
	      If the server is to be run by theinetd  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).

       /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
	      This is the default location of the smb.conf(5) server  configu‐
	      ration  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.

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 sys‐
	      tems 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  re‐
       stricted	 by  the  limitations of the SMB protocol and the obey pam re‐
       strictions smb.conf(5) paramater. When this is set, the	following  re‐
       strictions apply:

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

       ·  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 sup‐
	  port.

VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 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	 over‐
       ridden 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	avail‐
       able  in	 the source code to warrant describing each and every diagnos‐
       tic. 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 see‐
       ing.

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 impor‐
       tant 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 configu‐
       ration 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 mem‐
       ory 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 smbcon‐
       trol(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 untilsmbd 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),	 test‐
       parm(1),	 testprns(1),  and the Internet RFC'srfc1001.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 An‐
       drew 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 up‐
       dated 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 Doc‐
       Book XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

								       SMBD(8)
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