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net - Tool for administration of Samba and remote CIFS servers.
net {<ads|rap|rpc>} [-h] [-w workgroup] [-W myworkgroup] [-U user] [-I ip-address] [-p port] [-n myname] [-s conffile] [-S server] [-l] [-P] [-d debuglevel] [-V] |
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
The samba net utility is meant to work just like the net utility available for windows and DOS. The first argument should be used to specify the protocol to use when executing a certain command. ADS is used for ActiveDirectory, RAP is using for old (Win9x/NT3) clients and RPC can be used for NT4 and Windows 2000. If this argument is omitted, net will try to determine it automatically. Not all commands are available on all protocols.
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-w target-workgroup
Sets target workgroup or domain. You have to specify either this option or the IP address or the name of a server.
-W workgroup
Sets client workgroup or domain
-U user
User name to use
-I ip-address
IP address of target server to use. You have to specify either this option or a target workgroup or a target server.
-p port
Port on the target server to connect to (usually 139 or 445). Defaults to trying 445 first, then 139.
-n <primary NetBIOS name>
This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This is identical to setting the
parameter in the smb.conf file. However, a command line setting will take precedence over settings in smb.conf.
-s <configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details required by the server. The information in this file includes server-specific information such as what printcap file to use, as well as descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide. See smb.conf for more information. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time.
-S server
Name of target server. You should specify either this option or a target workgroup or a target IP address.
-l
When listing data, give more information on each item.
-P
Make queries to the external server using the machine account of the local server.
-d|--debuglevel=level
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero.
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
parameter in the smb.conf file.
CHANGESECRETPW
This command allows the Samba machine account password to be
set from an external application to a machine account
password that has already been stored in Active Directory.
DO NOT USE this command unless you know exactly what you are
doing. The use of this command requires that the force flag
(-f) be used also. There will be NO command prompt. Whatever
information is piped into stdin, either by typing at the
command line or otherwise, will be stored as the literal
machine password. Do NOT use this without care and attention
as it will overwrite a legitimate machine password without
warning. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
TIME
The NET TIME command allows you to view the time on a remote
server or synchronise the time on the local server with the
time on the remote server.
TIME
Without any options, the NET TIME command displays the time
on the remote server.
TIME
SYSTEM
Displays the time on the remote server in a format ready for
/bin/date
TIME SET
Tries to set the date and time of the local server to that
on the remote server using /bin/date.
TIME
ZONE
Displays the timezone in hours from GMT on the remote
computer.
[RPC|ADS]
JOIN [TYPE] [-U username[%password]] [createupn=UPN]
[createcomputer=OU] [options]
Join a domain. If the account already exists on the server,
and [TYPE] is MEMBER, the machine will attempt to join
automatically. (Assuming that the machine has been created
in server manager) Otherwise, a password will be prompted
for, and a new account may be created.
[TYPE] may be PDC, BDC or MEMBER to specify the type of server joining the domain.
[UPN] (ADS only) set the principalname attribute during the join. The default format is host/netbiosname@REALM.
[OU] (ADS only) Precreate the computer account in a specific OU. The OU string reads from top to bottom without RDNs, and is delimited by a ’/’. Please note that ’´ is used for escape by both the shell and ldap, so it may need to be doubled or quadrupled to pass through, and it is not used as a delimiter.
[RPC]
OLDJOIN [options]
Join a domain. Use the OLDJOIN option to join the domain
using the old style of domain joining - you need to create a
trust account in server manager first.
[RPC|ADS]
USER
[RPC|ADS] USER
List all users
[RPC|ADS]
USER DELETE target
Delete specified user
[RPC|ADS]
USER INFO target
List the domain groups of a the specified user.
[RPC|ADS]
USER RENAME oldname newname
Rename specified user.
[RPC|ADS]
USER ADD name [password] [-F user flags] [-C comment]
Add specified user.
[RPC|ADS]
GROUP
[RPC|ADS] GROUP [misc options] [targets]
List user groups.
[RPC|ADS]
GROUP DELETE name [misc. options]
Delete specified group.
[RPC|ADS]
GROUP ADD name [-C comment]
Create specified group.
[RAP|RPC]
SHARE
[RAP|RPC] SHARE [misc. options] [targets]
Enumerates all exported resources (network shares) on target
server.
[RAP|RPC]
SHARE ADD name=serverpath [-C comment] [-M maxusers]
[targets]
Adds a share from a server (makes the export active).
Maxusers specifies the number of users that can be connected
to the share simultaneously.
SHARE DELETE
sharenam
Delete specified share.
[RPC|RAP]
FILE
[RPC|RAP] FILE
List all open files on remote server.
[RPC|RAP]
FILE CLOSE fileid
Close file with specified fileid on remote
server.
[RPC|RAP]
FILE INFO fileid
Print information on specified fileid. Currently
listed are: file-id, username, locks, path, permissions.
[RAP|RPC]
FILE USER
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
SESSION
RAP SESSION
Without any other options, SESSION enumerates all active
SMB/CIFS sessions on the target server.
RAP SESSION
DELETE|CLOSE CLIENT_NAME
Close the specified sessions.
RAP SESSION
INFO CLIENT_NAME
Give a list with all the open files in specified
session.
RAP
SERVER DOMAIN
List all servers in specified domain or workgroup. Defaults
to local domain.
RAP
DOMAIN
Lists all domains and workgroups visible on the current
network.
RAP PRINTQ
RAP PRINTQ LIST QUEUE_NAME
Lists the specified print queue and print jobs on the
server. If the QUEUE_NAME is omitted, all queues are
listed.
RAP PRINTQ
DELETE JOBID
Delete job with specified id.
RAP
VALIDATE user [password]
Validate whether the specified user can log in to the remote
server. If the password is not specified on the commandline,
it will be prompted.
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
RAP
GROUPMEMBER
RAP GROUPMEMBER LIST GROUP
List all members of the specified group.
RAP
GROUPMEMBER DELETE GROUP USER
Delete member from group.
RAP
GROUPMEMBER ADD GROUP USER
Add member to group.
RAP
ADMIN command
Execute the specified command on the remote server.
Only works with OS/2 servers.
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
RAP SERVICE
RAP SERVICE START NAME [arguments...]
Start the specified service on the remote server. Not
implemented yet.
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
RAP SERVICE
STOP
Stop the specified service on the remote server.
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
RAP
PASSWORD USER OLDPASS NEWPASS
Change password of USER from OLDPASS to
NEWPASS.
LOOKUP
LOOKUP HOST HOSTNAME [TYPE]
Lookup the IP address of the given host with the specified
type (netbios suffix). The type defaults to 0x20
(workstation).
LOOKUP LDAP
[DOMAIN
Give IP address of LDAP server of specified DOMAIN.
Defaults to local domain.
LOOKUP KDC
[REALM]
Give IP address of KDC for the specified REALM.
Defaults to local realm.
LOOKUP DC
[DOMAIN]
Give IP’s of Domain Controllers for specified
DOMAIN. Defaults to local domain.
LOOKUP
MASTER DOMAIN
Give IP of master browser for specified DOMAIN or
workgroup. Defaults to local domain.
CACHE
Samba uses a general caching interface called
’gencache’. It can be controlled using
’NET CACHE’.
All the timeout parameters support the suffixes:
s - Seconds |
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m - Minutes |
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h - Hours |
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d - Days |
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w - Weeks |
CACHE ADD
key data time-out
Add specified key+data to the cache with the given
timeout.
CACHE DEL
key
Delete key from the cache.
CACHE SET
key data time-out
Update data of existing cache entry.
CACHE SEARCH
PATTERN
Search for the specified pattern in the cache data.
CACHE
LIST
List all current items in the cache.
CACHE
FLUSH
Remove all the current items from the cache.
GETLOCALSID
[DOMAIN]
Print the SID of the specified domain, or if the parameter
is omitted, the SID of the domain the local server is
in.
SETLOCALSID
S-1-5-21-x-y-z
Sets domain sid for the local server to the specified
SID.
GROUPMAP
Manage the mappings between Windows group SIDs and UNIX
groups. Parameters take the for "parameter=value".
Common options include:
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unixgroup - Name of the UNIX group | ||
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ntgroup - Name of the Windows NT group (must be resolvable to a SID | ||
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rid - Unsigned 32-bit integer | ||
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sid - Full SID in the form of "S-1-..." | ||
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type - Type of the group; either ’domain’, ’local’, or ’builtin’ | ||
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comment - Freeform text description of the group |
GROUPMAP
ADD
Add a new group mapping entry:
net groupmap add {rid=int|sid=string} unixgroup=string [type={domain|local}] [ntgroup=string] [comment=string]
GROUPMAP
DELETE
Delete a group mapping entry. If more then one group name
matches, the first entry found is deleted.
net groupmap delete {ntgroup=string|sid=SID}
GROUPMAP
MODIFY
Update en existing group entry
net groupmap modify {ntgroup=string|sid=SID} [unixgroup=string] [comment=string] [type={domain|local}]
GROUPMAP
LIST
List existing group mapping entries
net groupmap list [verbose] [ntgroup=string] [sid=SID]
MAXRID
Prints out the highest RID currently in use on the local
server (by the active ’passdb backend’).
RPC INFO
Print information about the domain of the remote server,
such as domain name, domain sid and number of users and
groups.
[RPC|ADS]
TESTJOIN
Check whether participation in a domain is still valid.
[RPC|ADS]
CHANGETRUSTPW
Force change of domain trust password.
RPC TRUSTDOM
RPC TRUSTDOM ADD DOMAIN
Add a interdomain trust account for DOMAIN to the
remote server.
RPC TRUSTDOM
DEL DOMAIM
Remove interdomain trust account for DOMAIN from the
remote server.
Note
Currently NOT implemented.
RPC TRUSTDOM
ESTABLISH DOMAIN
Establish a trust relationship to a trusting domain.
Interdomain account must already be created on the remote
PDC.
RPC TRUSTDOM
REVOKE DOMAIN
Abandon relationship to trusted domain
RPC TRUSTDOM
LIST
List all current interdomain trust relationships.
RPC
RIGHTS
This subcommand is used to view and manage Samba’s
rights assignments (also referred to as privileges). There
are three options current available: list,
grant, and revoke. More details on
Samba’s privilege model and its use can be found in
the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.
RPC
ABORTSHUTDOWN
Abort the shutdown of a remote server.
RPC SHUTDOWN
[-t timeout] [-r] [-f] [-C message]
Shut down the remote server.
-r
Reboot after shutdown.
-f
Force shutting down all applications.
-t timeout
Timeout before system will be shut down. An interactive user of the system can use this time to cancel the shutdown.
-C message
Display the specified message on the screen to announce the shutdown.
RPC
SAMDUMP
Print out sam database of remote server. You need to run
this against the PDC, from a Samba machine joined as a
BDC.
RPC
VAMPIRE
Export users, aliases and groups from remote server to local
server. You need to run this against the PDC, from a Samba
machine joined as a BDC.
RPC
GETSID
Fetch domain SID and store it in the local
secrets.tdb.
ADS
LEAVE
Make the remote host leave the domain it is part of.
ADS
STATUS
Print out status of machine account of the local machine in
ADS. Prints out quite some debug info. Aimed at developers,
regular users should use NET ADS TESTJOIN.
ADS PRINTER
ADS PRINTER INFO [PRINTER] [SERVER]
Lookup info for PRINTER on SERVER. The printer
name defaults to "*", the server name defaults to
the local host.
ADS PRINTER
PUBLISH PRINTER
Publish specified printer using ADS.
ADS PRINTER
REMOVE PRINTER
Remove specified printer from ADS directory.
ADS
SEARCH EXPRESSION ATTRIBUTES...
Perform a raw LDAP search on a ADS server and dump the
results. The expression is a standard LDAP search
expression, and the attributes are a list of LDAP fields to
show in the results.
Example: net ads search ’(objectCategory=group)’ sAMAccountName
ADS DN
DN (attributes)
Perform a raw LDAP search on a ADS server and dump the
results. The DN standard LDAP DN, and the attributes are a
list of LDAP fields to show in the result.
Example: net ads dn ’CN=administrator,CN=Users,DC=my,DC=domain’ SAMAccountName
ADS
WORKGROUP
Print out workgroup name for specified kerberos realm.
SAM
CREATEBUILTINGROUP <NAME>
(Re)Create a BUILTIN group. Only a wellknown set of BUILTIN
groups can be created with this command. This is the list of
currently recognized group names: Administrators, Users,
Guests, Power Users, Account Operators, Server Operators,
Print Operators, Backup Operators, Replicator, RAS Servers,
Pre-Windows 2000 ompatible Access. This command requires a
running Winbindd with idmap allocation properly configured.
The group gid will be allocated out of the winbindd
range.
SAM
CREATELOCALGROUP <NAME>
Create a LOCAL group (also known as Alias). This command
requires a running Winbindd with idmap allocation properly
configured. The group gid will be allocated out of the
winbindd range.
SAM
DELETELOCALGROUP <NAME>
Delete an existing LOCAL group (also known as Alias).
SAM
MAPUNIXGROUP <NAME>
Map an existing Unix group and make it a Domain Group, the
domain group will have the same name.
SAM
UNMAPUNIXGROUP <NAME>
Remove an existing group mapping entry.
SAM ADDMEM
<GROUP> <MEMBER>
Add a member to a Local group. The group can be specified
only by name, the member can be specified by name or
SID.
SAM DELMEM
<GROUP> <MEMBER>
Remove a member from a Local group. The group and the member
must be specified by name.
SAM LISTMEM
<GROUP>
List Local group members. The group must be specified by
name.
SAM LIST
<users|groups|localgroups|builtin|workstations>
[verbose]
List the specified set of accounts by name. If verbose is
specified, the rid and description is also provided for each
account.
SAM SHOW
<NAME>
Show the full DOMAIN\NAME the SID and the type for the
corrisponding account.
SAM SET
HOMEDIR <NAME> <DIRECTORY>
Set the home directory for a user account.
SAM SET
PROFILEPATH <NAME> <PATH>
Set the profile path for a user account.
SAM SET
COMMENT <NAME> <COMMENT>
Set the comment for a user or group account.
SAM SET
FULLNAME <NAME> <FULL NAME>
Set the full name for a user account.
SAM SET
LOGONSCRIPT <NAME> <SCRIPT>
Set the logon script for a user account.
SAM SET
HOMEDRIVE <NAME> <DRIVE>
Set the home drive for a user account.
SAM SET
WORKSTATIONS <NAME> <WORKSTATIONS>
Set the workstations a user account is allowed to log in
from.
SAM SET
DISABLE <NAME>
Set the "disabled" flag for a user account.
SAM SET
PWNOTREQ <NAME>
Set the "password not required" flag for a user
account.
SAM SET
AUTOLOCK <NAME>
Set the "autolock" flag for a user account.
SAM SET
PWNOEXP <NAME>
Set the "password do not expire" flag for a user
account.
SAM SET
PWMUSTCHANGENOW <NAME> [yes|no]
Set or unset the "password must change" flag fro a
user account.
SAM POLICY
LIST
List the avilable account policies.
SAM POLICY
SHOW <account policy>
Show the account policy value.
SAM POLICY
SET <account policy> <value>
Set a value for the account policy. Valid values can be:
"forever", "never", "off", or
a number.
SAM
PROVISION
Only available if ldapsam:editposix is set and winbindd is
running. Properly populates the ldap tree with the basic
accounts (Administrator) and groups (Domain Users, Domain
Admins, Domain Guests) on the ldap tree.
IDMAP DUMP
<output file>
Dumps the mappings in the specified output file.
IDMAP
RESTORE [input file]
Restore the mappings from the specified file or stdin.
IDMAP SECRET
<DOMAIN>|ALLOC <secret>
Store a secret for the sepcified domain, used primarily for
domains that use idmap_ldap as a backend. In this case the
secret is used as the password for the user DN used to bind
to the ldap server.
USERSHARE
Starting with version 3.0.23, a Samba server now supports
the ability for non-root users to add user define shares to
be exported using the "net usershare"
commands.
To set this up, first set up your smb.conf by adding to the [global] section : usershare path = /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares Next create the directory /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares, change the owner to root and set the group owner to the UNIX group who should have the ability to create usershares, for example a group called "serverops". Set the permissions on /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares to 01770. (Owner and group all access, no access for others, plus the sticky bit, which means that a file in that directory can be renamed or deleted only by the owner of the file). Finally, tell smbd how many usershares you will allow by adding to the [global] section of smb.conf a line such as : usershare max shares = 100. To allow 100 usershare definitions. Now, members of the UNIX group "serverops" can create user defined shares on demand using the commands below.
The usershare commands are:
net usershare add sharename path [comment] [acl] [guest_ok=[y|n]] - to add or change a user defined share. | |
net usershare delete sharename - to delete a user defined share. | |
net usershare info [-l|--long] [wildcard sharename] - to print info about a user defined share. | |
net usershare list [-l|--long] [wildcard sharename] - to list user defined shares. |
USERSHARE
ADD sharename path [comment] [acl] [guest_ok=[y|n]]
Add or replace a new user defined share, with name
"sharename".
"path" specifies the absolute pathname on the system to be exported. Restrictions may be put on this, see the global smb.conf parameters : "usershare owner only", "usershare prefix allow list", and "usershare prefix deny list".
The optional "comment" parameter is the comment that will appear on the share when browsed to by a client.
The optional "acl" field specifies which users have read and write access to the entire share. Note that guest connections are not allowed unless the smb.conf parameter "usershare allow guests" has been set. The definition of a user defined share acl is : "user:permission", where user is a valid username on the system and permission can be "F", "R", or "D". "F" stands for "full permissions", ie. read and write permissions. "D" stands for "deny" for a user, ie. prevent this user from accessing this share. "R" stands for "read only", ie. only allow read access to this share (no creation of new files or directories or writing to files).
The default if no "acl" is given is "Everyone:R", which means any authenticated user has read-only access.
The optional "guest_ok" has the same effect as the parameter of the same name in smb.conf, in that it allows guest access to this user defined share. This parameter is only allowed if the global parameter "usershare allow guests" has been set to true in the smb.conf.
There is no separate command to modify an existing user defined share, just use the "net usershare add [sharename]" command using the same sharename as the one you wish to modify and specify the new options you wish. The Samba smbd daemon notices user defined share modifications at connect time so will see the change immediately, there is no need to restart smbd on adding, deleting or changing a user defined share.
USERSHARE
DELETE sharename
Deletes the user defined share by name. The Samba smbd
daemon immediately notices this change, although it will not
disconnect any users currently connected to the deleted
share.
USERSHARE
INFO [-l|--long] [wildcard sharename]
Get info on user defined shares owned by the current user
matching the given pattern, or all users.
net usershare info on its own dumps out info on the user defined shares that were created by the current user, or restricts them to share names that match the given wildcard pattern (’*’ matches one or more characters, ’?’ matches only one character). If the ’-l’ or ’--long’ option is also given, it prints out info on user defined shares created by other users.
The information given about a share looks like : [foobar] path=/home/jeremy comment=testme usershare_acl=Everyone:F guest_ok=n And is a list of the current settings of the user defined share that can be modified by the "net usershare add" command.
USERSHARE
LIST [-l|--long] wildcard sharename
List all the user defined shares owned by the current user
matching the given pattern, or all users.
net usershare list on its own list out the names of the user defined shares that were created by the current user, or restricts the list to share names that match the given wildcard pattern (’*’ matches one or more characters, ’?’ matches only one character). If the ’-l’ or ’--long’ option is also given, it includes the names of user defined shares created by other users.
HELP
[COMMAND]
Gives usage information for the specified command.
This man page is complete for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
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 net manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.
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