| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbcontrol</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbcontrol.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbcontrol — send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">smbcontrol</code> [-i] [-s]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">smbcontrol</code> [destination] [message-type] [parameter]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231137"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><span><strong class="command">smbcontrol</strong></span> is a very small program, which |
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| 2 | sends messages to a <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, a <a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, or a <a href="winbindd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">winbindd</span>(8)</span></a> daemon running on the system.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231187"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. |
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| 3 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the |
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| 4 | configuration details required by the server. The |
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| 5 | information in this file includes server-specific |
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| 6 | information such as what printcap file to use, as well |
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| 7 | as descriptions of all the services that the server is |
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| 8 | to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information. |
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| 9 | The default configuration file name is determined at |
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| 10 | compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i</span></dt><dd><p>Run interactively. Individual commands |
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| 11 | of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered |
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| 12 | on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the |
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| 13 | program.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">destination</span></dt><dd><p>One of <em class="parameter"><code>nmbd</code></em>, <em class="parameter"><code>smbd</code></em> or a process ID.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>smbd</code></em> destination causes the |
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| 14 | message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>nmbd</code></em> destination causes the |
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| 15 | message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the |
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| 16 | <code class="filename">nmbd.pid</code> file.</p><p>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent |
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| 17 | to only that process.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">message-type</span></dt><dd><p>Type of message to send. See |
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| 18 | the section <code class="constant">MESSAGE-TYPES</code> for details. |
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| 19 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">parameters</span></dt><dd><p>any parameters required for the message-type</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231518"></a><h2>MESSAGE-TYPES</h2><p>Available message types are:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">close-share</span></dt><dd><p>Order smbd to close the client |
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| 20 | connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client |
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| 21 | connections to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the |
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| 22 | share name for which client connections will be closed, or the |
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| 23 | "*" character which will close all currently open shares. |
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| 24 | This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share. |
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| 25 | This message can only be sent to <code class="constant">smbd</code>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debug</span></dt><dd><p>Set debug level to the value specified by the |
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| 26 | parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">force-election</span></dt><dd><p>This message causes the <span><strong class="command">nmbd</strong></span> daemon to |
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| 27 | force a new browse master election. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ping</span></dt><dd><p> |
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| 28 | Send specified number of "ping" messages and |
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| 29 | wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to |
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| 30 | any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profile</span></dt><dd><p>Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the |
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| 31 | parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats |
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| 32 | collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count" |
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| 33 | to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are |
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| 34 | disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can |
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| 35 | be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p> |
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| 36 | Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This |
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| 37 | can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profilelevel</span></dt><dd><p> |
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| 38 | Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. |
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| 39 | This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">printnotify</span></dt><dd><p> |
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| 40 | Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients |
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| 41 | connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments: |
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| 42 | </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">queuepause printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue pause change notify |
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| 43 | message to the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">queueresume printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue resume change notify |
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| 44 | message for the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobpause printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job pause change notify |
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| 45 | message for the printer and unix jobid |
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| 46 | specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobresume printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job resume change notify |
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| 47 | message for the printer and unix jobid |
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| 48 | specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobdelete printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job delete change notify |
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| 49 | message for the printer and unix jobid |
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| 50 | specified.</p></dd></dl></div><p> |
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| 51 | Note that this message only sends notification that an |
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| 52 | event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the |
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| 53 | event to happen. |
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| 54 | </p><p>This message can only be sent to <code class="constant">smbd</code>. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">samsync</span></dt><dd><p>Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being BDC). Can only be sent to <code class="constant">smbd</code>. </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>Not working at the moment</p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">samrepl</span></dt><dd><p>Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can only be sent to <code class="constant">smbd</code>. Should not be used manually.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">dmalloc-mark</span></dt><dd><p>Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">dmalloc-log-changed</span></dt><dd><p> |
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| 55 | Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark. |
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| 56 | Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">shutdown</span></dt><dd><p>Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">pool-usage</span></dt><dd><p>Print a human-readable description of all |
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| 57 | talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available |
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| 58 | for both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">drvupgrade</span></dt><dd><p>Force clients of printers using specified driver |
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| 59 | to update their local version of the driver. Can only be |
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| 60 | sent to smbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">reload-config</span></dt><dd><p>Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent |
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| 61 | to <code class="constant">smbd</code>, <code class="constant">nmbd</code>, or <code class="constant">winbindd</code>. |
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| 62 | </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id271888"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of |
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| 63 | the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id271898"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id271923"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities |
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| 64 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed |
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| 65 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar |
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| 66 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. |
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| 67 | The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another |
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| 68 | excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top"> |
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| 69 | ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 |
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| 70 | release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for |
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| 71 | Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for |
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| 72 | Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> |
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