| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbstatus</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbstatus.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbstatus — report on current Samba connections</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">smbstatus</code> [-P] [-b] [-d <debug level>] [-v] [-L] [-B] [-p] [-S] [-s <configuration file>] [-u <username>]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259581"></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">smbstatus</strong></span> is a very simple program to |
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| 2 | list the current Samba connections.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259607"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-P|--profile</span></dt><dd><p>If samba has been compiled with the |
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| 3 | profiling option, print only the contents of the profiling |
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| 4 | shared memory area.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b|--brief</span></dt><dd><p>gives brief output.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number. |
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| 5 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the |
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| 6 | configuration details required by the server. The |
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| 7 | information in this file includes server-specific |
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| 8 | information such as what printcap file to use, as well |
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| 9 | as descriptions of all the services that the server is |
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| 10 | to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information. |
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| 11 | The default configuration file name is determined at |
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| 12 | compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer |
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| 13 | from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is |
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| 14 | not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be |
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| 15 | logged to the log files about the activities of the |
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| 16 | server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious |
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| 17 | warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for |
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| 18 | day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of |
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| 19 | information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable |
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| 20 | amounts of log data, and should only be used when |
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| 21 | investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for |
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| 22 | use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log |
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| 23 | data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will |
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| 24 | override the <a class="indexterm" name="id260363"></a> parameter |
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| 25 | in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension |
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| 26 | <code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, |
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| 27 | log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client. |
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| 28 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-v|--verbose</span></dt><dd><p>gives verbose output.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-L|--locks</span></dt><dd><p>causes smbstatus to only list locks.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-B|--byterange</span></dt><dd><p>causes smbstatus to include byte range locks. |
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| 29 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p|--processes</span></dt><dd><p>print a list of <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> processes and exit. |
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| 30 | Useful for scripting.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S|--shares</span></dt><dd><p>causes smbstatus to only list shares.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. |
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| 31 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-u|--user=<username></span></dt><dd><p>selects information relevant to <em class="parameter"><code>username</code></em> only.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id260132"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of |
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| 32 | the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id260142"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id260167"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities |
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| 33 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed |
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| 34 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar |
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| 35 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. |
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| 36 | The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another |
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| 37 | excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top"> |
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| 38 | ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 |
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| 39 | release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for |
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| 40 | Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 |
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| 41 | for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> |
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