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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<refentry id="testparm.1">
+
+<refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version">&doc.version;</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+ <refname>testparm</refname>
+ <refpurpose>check an smb.conf configuration file for
+ internal correctness</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>testparm</command>
+ <arg choice="opt">-s|--suppress-prompt</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-v|--verbose</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-?|--help</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--usage</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--debug-stdout</arg>
+ <arg choice="req">config filename</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">hostname hostIP</arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+
+ <para><command>testparm</command> is a very simple test program
+ to check an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file for
+ internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
+ can use the configuration file with confidence that <command>smbd
+ </command> will successfully load the configuration file.</para>
+
+
+ <para>Note that this is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> a guarantee that
+ the services specified in the configuration file will be
+ available or will operate as expected. </para>
+
+ <para>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. </para>
+
+ <para>If <command>testparm</command> finds an error in the <filename>
+ smb.conf</filename> 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 <command>testparm</command>.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-s|--suppress-prompt</term>
+ <listitem><para>Without this option, <command>testparm</command>
+ will prompt for a carriage return after printing the service
+ names and before dumping the service definitions.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-v|--verbose</term>
+ <listitem><para>If this option is specified, testparm
+ will also output all options that were not used in <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> and are thus set to their defaults.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>--parameter-name parametername</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ 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.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>--section-name sectionname</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Dumps the named section.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>--show-all-parameters</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Show the parameters, type, possible values.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-l|--skip-logic-checks</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Skip the global checks.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ &popt.autohelp;
+ &cmdline.common.debug.client;
+ &cmdline.common.config.client;
+ &cmdline.common.option;
+ &cmdline.version;
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>configfilename</term>
+ <listitem><para>This is the name of the configuration file
+ to check. If this parameter is not present then the
+ default <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> file will be checked.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>hostname</term>
+ <listitem><para>If this parameter and the following are
+ specified, then <command>testparm</command> will examine the <parameter>hosts
+ allow</parameter> and <parameter>hosts deny</parameter>
+ parameters in the <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> file to
+ determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
+ allowed access to the <command>smbd</command> server. If
+ this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
+ be supplied.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>hostIP</term>
+ <listitem><para>This is the IP address of the host specified
+ in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
+ if the hostname parameter is supplied. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>FILES</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry></term>
+ <listitem><para>This is usually the name of the configuration
+ file used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
+
+ <para>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. </para>
+
+ <para>For certain use cases, SMB protocol requires use of
+ cryptographic algorithms which are known to be weak and already
+ broken. DES and ARCFOUR (RC4) ciphers and the SHA1 and MD5 hash
+ algorithms are considered weak but they are required for backward
+ compatibility. The testparm utility shows whether the Samba tools
+ will fall back to these weak crypto algorithms if it is not possible
+ to use strong cryptography by default.
+ In FIPS mode weak crypto cannot be enabled.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>VERSION</title>
+
+ <para>This man page is part of version &doc.version; of
+ the Samba suite.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para><citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry></para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>