smbcontrol

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 -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.

-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 the - nmbd.pid file.

If a single process ID is given, the message is sent - to only that process.

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 connections 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 election.

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 destinations.

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 arguments: -

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 occured. 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 available 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.

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 project 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.