smbcontrol (1)

Samba

29 Sep 2000

NAME

smbcontrol - send messages to smbd or nmbd processes

SYNOPSIS

smbcontrol -i

smbcontrol destination message-type parameters

DESCRIPTION

This program is part of the Samba suite.

smbcontrol is a very small program, which sends messages to a smbd or a nmbd daemon running on the system.

OPTIONS

-i Run interactively. Individual commands of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered on STDIN. An empty command line will quit the program.
destination is one of "nmbd", "smbd" or a process ID

The smbd destination causes the message to be "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 is one of: debug, force-election, or ping.

The debug message-type allows the debug level to be set to the value specified by the parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.

The force-election message-type can only be sent to the nmbd destination. This message causes the nmbd daemon to force a new browse master election.

The ping message-type sends the number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
parameters is any parameters required for the message-type

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 2.2.0 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell samba@samba.org. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

This man page source was written in YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) for the Samba 2.2.0 release by Herb Lewis. samba@samba.org.

See samba (7) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.