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Special Forums IP Networking Networking UNIX with WINDOWS Post 933 by Neo on Sunday 28th of January 2001 11:30:38 AM

01-28-2001

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SAMBA

Try http://www.samba.org/ for all the info you need to get UNIX and Windows to share files. The following extract is from the samba readme file:

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WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
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Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. For many networks this can be simply summarised by "Samba provides a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."

- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.

- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.

- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems

- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs

- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.

For a much better overview have a look at the web site at http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.

Also, this is a great book on Samba, the same one I used to set up Samba on our network:<CENTER>
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Most of the info from the book can be found at the Samba site (in fact, I think the entire book is on-line). I went ahead and got it and found it was well worth it and a great addition to the lib. However, I'm pretty sure most of the info and book can be found at the Samba web site.

[Edited by Neo on 02-02-2001 at 12:04 AM]

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masktest

MASKTEST(1)							    Test Suite							       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/

Samba 4.0							    06/17/2014							       MASKTEST(1)