TESTPARM(1)															       TESTPARM(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       testparm [-s] [-h] [-v] [-L<servername>] [-t<encoding>] {configfilename} [hostnamehostIP]

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 prob-
       lems, 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  defini-
	  tions.

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

       -V
	  Prints the program version number.

       -L servername
	  Sets the value of the %L macro to servername. This is useful for testing include files specified with the %L macro.

       -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.

       --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. Therfore 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 sup-
	  plied, 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  sup-
	  plied.

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 warn-
       ings 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 3.0 of the Samba suite.

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.

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