Samba Documentation

Documentation

The documentation (and in particular the man pages) given on this web page are taken from the latest development version of Samba. If you are using an earlier version of Samba then you may find some differences.

Documentation

The Samba Wiki is a comprehensive and certainly the most up to date documentation about Samba.
Presentations by Samba Team members
Samba man pages in html
Samba Licensing (GNU GPL)

Older (but hopefully still valid) misc docs

Implementing CIFS; an on-line book describing the workings and implementation of the CIFS protocol suite.
PDF version of the Troubleshooting Techniques chapter from the second edition of Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (Dec. 2001)
Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO
Ten Years of Samba
Introduction to Samba 3.0 by Motonobu Takahashi (written in Japanese).
Using Samba, 2ed, O'Reilly & Associates (Feb. 2003). (Jan 2007: The 3rd edition has been released).
An Introduction to Samba
What is SMB?
What is CIFS?
How to use SWAT with SSL security (updated for OpenSSL)

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Contributing

Contributions are always welcome to Samba documentation. Like everything else concerning Samba, these docs are maintained by members of the Samba community, and any help is much appreciated. Contributions can be simple typo corrections or a write up of new or previously undocumented features.

The documentation is located in the docs-xml directory in each release branch. Please see the Samba Wiki for information about the release branches and a short introduction into git.

Documentation "patches" can be reported through bugzilla. From the bugzilla home page, select 'Enter a new bug report,' choose the appropriate Samba branch, and finally, on the bug report form, specify 'Docs' in the component menu. Don't forget to attach your documentation fixes against the Docbook XML source files (not the generated man pages).