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SMBCONTROL(1)
NAME
smbcontrol - send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes
SYNOPSIS
smbcontrol [-i] [-s]
smbcontrol [destination] [message-type] [parameter]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
smbcontrol is a very small program, which sends messages to a smbd(8), a
nmbd(8), or a winbindd(8) daemon running on the system.
OPTIONS
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-s <configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details required by the
server. The information in this file includes server-specific informa-
tion 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 in-
formation. The default configuration file name is determined at com-
pile time.
-i Run interactively. Individual commands of the form destination
message-type parameters can be entered on STDIN. An empty command line
or a "q" will quit the program.
destination
One of nmbd, smbd or a process ID.
The smbd destination causes the message to "broadcast" to all smbd
daemons.
The nmbd destination causes the message to be sent to the nmbd daemon
specified in thenmbd.pid file.
If a single process ID is given, the message is sent to only that pro-
cess.
message-type
Type of message to send. See the section MESSAGE-TYPES for details.
parameters
any parameters required for the message-type
MESSAGE-TYPES
Available message types are:
close-share
Order smbd to close the client connections to the named share. Note
that this doesn't affect client connections to any other shares. This
message-type takes an argument of the share name for which client con-
nections will be closed, or the "*" character which will close all
currently open shares. This may be useful if you made changes to the
access controls on the share. This message can only be sent to smbd.
debug
Set debug level to the value specified by the parameter. This can be
sent to any of the destinations.
force-election
This message causes the nmbd daemon to force a new browse master elec-
tion.
ping Send specified number of "ping" messages and wait for the same number
of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
profile
Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the parameter. The
parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats collection, "off" to
turn off profile stats collection, "count" to enable only collection
of count stats (time stats are disabled), and "flush" to zero the
current profile stats. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destina-
tions.
debuglevel
Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
can be sent to any of the destinations.
profilelevel
Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.
printnotify
Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients
connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following argu-
ments:
queuepause printername
Send a queue pause change notify message to the printer specified.
queueresume printername
Send a queue resume change notify message for the printer specified.
jobpause printername unixjobid
Send a job pause change notify message for the printer and unix
jobid specified.
jobresume printername unixjobid
Send a job resume change notify message for the printer and unix
jobid specified.
jobdelete printername unixjobid
Send a job delete change notify message for the printer and unix
jobid specified.
Note that this message only sends notification that an event has oc-
cured. It doesn't actually cause the event to happen.
This message can only be sent to smbd.
samsync
Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being BDC). Can only
be sent to smbd.
Note
Not working at the moment
samrepl
Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can only be sent
to smbd. Should not be used manually.
dmalloc-mark
Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only avail-
able if samba is built with dmalloc support.
dmalloc-log-changed
Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by
dmalloc-mark. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if
samba is built with dmalloc support.
shutdown
Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.
pool-usage
Print a human-readable description of all talloc(pool) memory usage by
the specified daemon/process. Available for both smbd and nmbd.
drvupgrade
Force clients of printers using specified driver to update their local
version of the driver. Can only be sent to smbd.
reload-config
Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent to
smbd, nmbd, or winbindd.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
nmbd(8) and 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 pro-
ject 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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