TESTPARM(1)															       TESTPARM(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       testparm [ -s ]	[ -h ]	[ -x ]	[ -L <servername> ]  config filename [ hostname hostIP ]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the  Samba suite.

       testparm  is  a very simple test program to check an smbd 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 def-
	      initions.

       -h     Print usage message

       -x     Print only parameters that have non-default values

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

       configfilename
	      This  is	the  name  of  the  configuration  file  to check. If this parameter is not present then the default smb.conf 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	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
	      This is usually the name of the configuration file used by smbd.

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 2.2 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/ <URL: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

								 19 November 2002						       TESTPARM(1)