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<refentry id="testparm.1">
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<refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="version">3.4</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>testparm</refname>
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<refpurpose>check an smb.conf configuration file for
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internal correctness</refpurpose>
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<command>testparm</command>
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<arg choice="opt">-s</arg>
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<arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
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<arg choice="opt">-v</arg>
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<arg choice="opt">-L <servername></arg>
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<arg choice="opt">-t <encoding></arg>
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<arg choice="req">config filename</arg>
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<arg choice="opt">hostname hostIP</arg>
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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<para><command>testparm</command> is a very simple test program
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to check an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file for
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internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
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can use the configuration file with confidence that <command>smbd
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</command> will successfully load the configuration file.</para>
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<para>Note that this is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> a guarantee that
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the services specified in the configuration file will be
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available or will operate as expected. </para>
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<para>If the optional host name and host IP address are
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specified on the command line, this test program will run through
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the service entries reporting whether the specified host
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has access to each service. </para>
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<para>If <command>testparm</command> finds an error in the <filename>
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smb.conf</filename> file it returns an exit code of 1 to the calling
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program, else it returns an exit code of 0. This allows shell scripts
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to test the output from <command>testparm</command>.</para>
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
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<listitem><para>Without this option, <command>testparm</command>
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will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service
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names and before dumping the service definitions.</para></listitem>
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<term>-L servername</term>
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<listitem><para>Sets the value of the %L macro to <replaceable>servername</replaceable>.
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This is useful for testing include files specified with the
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%L macro. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>If this option is specified, testparm
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will also output all options that were not used in <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry> and are thus set to their defaults.</para></listitem>
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<term>-t encoding</term>
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Output data in specified encoding.
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<term>--parameter-name parametername</term>
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Dumps the named parameter. If no section-name is set the view
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is limited by default to the global section.
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It is also possible to dump a parametrical option. Therfore
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the option has to be separated by a colon from the
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<term>--section-name sectionname</term>
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Dumps the named section.
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<term>configfilename</term>
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<listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
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to check. If this parameter is not present then the
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default <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry> file will be checked.
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<term>hostname</term>
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<listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
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specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
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allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
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parameters in the <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry> file to
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determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
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allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
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this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
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be supplied.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
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in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
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if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
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<term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry></term>
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<listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
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file used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
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<para>The program will issue a message saying whether the
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configuration file loaded OK or not. This message may be preceded by
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errors and warnings if the file did not load. If the file was
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loaded OK, the program then dumps all known service details
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<title>VERSION</title>
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<para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
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the Samba suite.</para>
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<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry></para>
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<title>AUTHOR</title>
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<para>The original Samba software and related utilities
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were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
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<para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
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excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
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ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
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release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
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Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
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for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>