Other Samba Components
The Samba package includes a number of additional tools. These are each described in man samba; we will also cover each one briefly here. Each one has its own man page for further details.
smbclient— A simple FTP-like client that allows you to connect to remote SMB shares and print to remote Windows printers.
testparm— A configuration file syntax checker that tests your smb.conf for correctness; similar to apachectl configtest for Apache.
testprns— Tests whether the printers specified in /etc/printcap will work properly with Samba.
smbstatus— Displays current connections to the Samba server. SWAT, as we saw earlier, has a page that shows the formatted output of this command in a Web browser.
nmblookup— Allows you to make NetBIOS ...
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