testparm (1)

Name

testparm - check an smb.conf configuration file for internal correctness

Synopsis

testparm [-s] [-h] [-v] [-t <encoding>] {config filename}
[hostname hostIP]

Description

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NAME
     testparm - check an smb.conf configuration file for internal
     correctness

SYNOPSIS
     testparm [-s] [-h] [-v] [-t <encoding>] {config filename}
      [hostname hostIP]

DESCRIPTION
     This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

     testparm is a very simple test program to check an smbd(8)
     configuration file for internal correctness. If this program
     reports no problems, you can use the configuration file with
     confidence that smbd will successfully load the
     configuration file.

     Note that this is NOT a guarantee that the services
     specified in the configuration file will be available or
     will operate as expected.

     If the optional host name and host IP address are specified
     on the command line, this test program will run through the
     service entries reporting whether the specified host has
     access to each service.

     If testparm finds an error in the smb.conf file it returns
     an exit code of 1 to the calling program, else it returns an
     exit code of 0. This allows shell scripts to test the output
     from testparm.

OPTIONS
     -s
         Without this option, testparm will prompt for a carriage
         return after printing the service names and before
         dumping the service definitions.

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

     -V|--version
         Prints the program version number.

     -v
         If this option is specified, testparm will also output
         all options that were not used in smb.conf(5) and are
         thus set to their defaults.

     -t encoding
         Output data in specified encoding.





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     --parameter-name parametername
         Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the
         view is limited by default to the global section. It is
         also possible to dump a parametrical option. Therefore
         the option has to be separated by a colon from the
         parametername.

     --section-name sectionname
         Dumps the named section.

     configfilename
         This is the name of the configuration file to check. If
         this parameter is not present then the default
         smb.conf(5) file will be checked.

     hostname
         If this parameter and the following are specified, then
         testparm will examine the hosts allow and hosts deny
         parameters in the smb.conf(5) file to determine if the
         hostname with this IP address would be allowed access to
         the smbd server. If this parameter is supplied, the
         hostIP parameter must also be supplied.

     hostIP
         This is the IP address of the host specified in the
         previous parameter. This address must be supplied if the
         hostname parameter is supplied.

FILES
     smb.conf(5)
         This is usually the name of the configuration file used
         by smbd(8).

DIAGNOSTICS
     The program will issue a message saying whether the
     configuration file loaded OK or not. This message may be
     preceded by errors and warnings if the file did not load. If
     the file was loaded OK, the program then dumps all known
     service details to stdout.

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


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:








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     +---------------+-----------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
     +---------------+-----------------------+
     |Availability   | service/network/samba |
     +---------------+-----------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile              |
     +---------------+-----------------------+
SEE ALSO
     smb.conf(5), smbd(8)

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.



NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-3.6.23.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.samba.org/.





















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