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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       testparm [-s|--suppress-prompt] [--help] [-v|--verbose] {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|--suppress-prompt
	   Without this option, testparm will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service names and before dumping the service
	   definitions.

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

       --option=<name>=<value>
	   Set the smb.conf(5) option "<name>" to value "<value>" from the command line. This overrides compiled-in defaults and options read from
	   the configuration file.

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

       --usage
	   Display brief usage message.

       -d|--debuglevel=level
	   level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 1.

	   The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical
	   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 log level parameter in the smb.conf file.

       -v|--verbose
	   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.

       --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.

       --show-all-parameters
	   Show the parameters, type, possible values.

       -l|--skip-logic-checks
	   Skip the global checks.

       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.

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.

Samba 4.0							    06/17/2014							       TESTPARM(1)