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testparm(1)


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.



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