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<h1>smbcontrol (1)</h1>
<h2>Samba</h2>
<h2>29 Sep 2000</h2>
<p><br><a name="NAME"></a>
<h2>NAME</h2>
smbcontrol - send messages to smbd or nmbd processes
<p><br><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<p><br><strong>smbcontrol</strong> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#minusi">-i</a>
<p><br><strong>smbcontrol</strong> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#destination">destination</a> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#messagetype">message-type</a> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#parameters">parameters</a>
<p><br><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p><br>This program is part of the <strong>Samba</strong> suite.
<p><br><strong>smbcontrol</strong> is a very small program, which sends messages to a <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a>
or a <a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd</strong></a> daemon running on the system.
<p><br><a name="OPTIONS"></a>
<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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<li><strong><strong>-i</strong></strong> Run interactively. Individual commands of the form
<a href="smbcontrol.1.html#destination">destination</a> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#messagetype">message-type</a> <a href="smbcontrol.1.html#parameters">parameters</a>
can be entered on STDIN. An empty command line will quit the program.
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<li><strong><strong>destination</strong></strong> is one of "nmbd", "smbd" or a process ID
<p><br>The <strong>smbd</strong> destination causes the message to be "broadcast" to all
smbd daemons.
<p><br>The <strong>nmbd</strong> destination causes the message to be sent to the nmbd
daemon specified in the <strong>nmbd.pid</strong> file.
<p><br>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent to only that
process.
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<li><strong><strong>message-type</strong></strong> is one of: debug, force-election, or ping.
<p><br>The <strong>debug</strong> 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.
<p><br>The <strong>force-election</strong> message-type can only be sent to the <strong>nmbd</strong>
destination. This message causes the <strong>nmbd</strong> daemon to force a
new browse master election.
<p><br>The <strong>ping</strong> 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.
<p><br><a name="parameters"></a>
<li><strong><strong>parameters</strong></strong> is any parameters required for the message-type
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<p><br><a name="VERSION"></a>
<h2>VERSION</h2>
<p><br>This man page is correct for version 2.2.0 of the Samba suite.
<p><br><a name="SEEALSO"></a>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p><br><a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd (8)</strong></a>, <a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd (8)</strong></a>
<p><br><a name="AUTHOR"></a>
<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
<p><br>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. Samba is now developed
by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
<p><br>This man page source was written in YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
Source software, available at
<a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"><strong>ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</strong></a>)
for the Samba 2.2.0 release by Herb Lewis.
<a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>.
<p><br>See <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a> to find out how to get a full
list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports,
comments etc.
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