10-18-2002
Why use Samba?
Hi,
I am sorry I am total dummy in Unix. I am starting to explore a thing call "Samba".
From my initial and rough finding, I think Samba is only useful in providing Print services to PC platform users.
That is to say, The Unix machine which has Samba installed, is able to provide print services to the PC users that connect to the unix machine.
Other than that, there are not so much pratical advantages of installing Samba.
Oh, I might be wrong. Please enlighten me if you have any comment. Or please point me the URL about services provided by Samba.
Thank you.
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gentest
GENTEST(1) Test Suite GENTEST(1)
NAME
gentest - Run random generic SMB operations against two SMB servers and show the differences in behavior
SYNOPSIS
gentest {//server1/share1} {//server2/share2} {-U user%pass} {-U user%pass} [-s seed] [-o numops] [-a] [-A] [-i FILE] [-O] [-S FILE] [-L]
[-F] [-C] [-X]
DESCRIPTION
gentest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between SMB servers. It will run a random set of generic operations against
//server1/share1 and then the same random set against //server2/share2 and display the differences in the responses it gets.
This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.
OPTIONS
-U user%pass
Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter is mandatory and has to be specified twice.
-s seed
Seed the random number generator with the specified value.
-o numops
Set the number of operations to perform.
-a
Print the operations that are performed.
-A
Backtrack to find minimal number of operations required to make the response to a certain call differ.
-i FILE
Specify a file containing the names of fields that have to be ignored (such as time fields). See below for a description of the file
format.
-O
Enable oplocks.
-S FILE
Set preset seeds file. The default is gentest_seeds.dat.
-L
Use preset seeds
-F
Fast reconnect (just close files)
-C
Continuous analysis mode
-X
Analyse even when the test succeeded.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
Samba
AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].
gentest was written by Andrew Tridgell.
This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.
NOTES
1. Samba
http://www.samba.org/
2. Samba Team
http://www.samba.org/samba/team/
Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 GENTEST(1)