08-14-2009
Using SAMBA in AIX 5.3
Please help, I'm wicked...
I'm trying to get Samba to work on an IBM pseries machine (AIX 5.3) to provide access to the server for a user to retrieve reports from her WinXP desktop. I've made the proper entires in the smb.conf file and tried runing the smbpasswd command to add the user to the file but it did not except the command. there may also be some other things that im missing. could somone let me know what im missing, or if there are any procedures in place anywhere...
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masktest
MASKTEST(1) [FIXME: manual] MASKTEST(1)
NAME
masktest - Find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.
SYNOPSIS
masktest {//server/share} [-U user%pass] [-d debuglevel] [-W workgroup] [-n numloops] [-s seed] [-a] [-E] [-M max protocol] [-f filechars]
[-m maskchars] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
masktest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between Samba's own implementation and that of a remote server. It will run
generate random filenames/masks and check if these match the same files they do on the remote file as they do on the local server. It will
display any differences it finds.
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 can be specified twice (once for the first server,
once for the second).
-s seed
Seed the random number generator with the specified value.
-n numops
Set the number of operations to perform.
-a
Print the operations that are performed.
-M max_protocol
Maximum protocol to use.
-f
Specify characters that can be used when generating file names. Default: abcdefghijklm.
-E
Abort when difference in behaviour is found.
-m maskchars
Specify characters used for wildcards.
-v
Be verbose
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].
masktest 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/
[FIXME: source] 04/16/2014 MASKTEST(1)