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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 V1.74.0"></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 &#8212; send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbcontrol</code> [-i] [-s]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbcontrol</code> [destination] [message-type] [parameter]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483336"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><code class="literal">smbcontrol</code> is a very small program, which
2 sends messages to a <a class="citerefentry" href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, a <a class="citerefentry" href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, or a <a class="citerefentry" 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="id2483387"></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.
3</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s|--configfile &lt;configuration file&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
4configuration details required by the server. The
5information in this file includes server-specific
6information such as what printcap file to use, as well
7as descriptions of all the services that the server is
8to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information.
9The default configuration file name is determined at
10compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i</span></dt><dd><p>Run interactively. Individual commands
11 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
12 on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
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>all</code></em> destination causes the
14 message to "broadcast" to all running daemons including nmbd and
15 winbind. This is a change for Samba 3.3, prior to this the
16 parameter smbd used to do this.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>smbd</code></em> destination causes the
17 message to be sent to the smbd daemon specified in the
18 <code class="filename">smbd.pid</code> file.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>nmbd</code></em> destination causes the
19 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
20 <code class="filename">nmbd.pid</code> file.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>winbindd</code></em> destination causes the
21 message to be sent to the winbind daemon specified in the
22 <code class="filename">winbindd.pid</code> file.</p><p>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
23 to only that process.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">message-type</span></dt><dd><p>Type of message to send. See
24 the section <code class="constant">MESSAGE-TYPES</code> for details.
25 </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="id2483690"></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
26 connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client
27 connections to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
28 share name for which client connections will be closed, or the
29 "*" character which will close all currently open shares.
30 This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share.
31 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
32 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 <code class="literal">nmbd</code> daemon to
33 force a new browse master election. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ping</span></dt><dd><p>
34 Send specified number of "ping" messages and
35 wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
36 any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profile</span></dt><dd><p>Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the
37 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
38 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
39 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
40 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
41 be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p>
42 Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
43 can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profilelevel</span></dt><dd><p>
44 Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout.
45 This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">printnotify</span></dt><dd><p>
46 Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients
47 connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments:
48 </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">queuepause printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue pause change notify
49 message to the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">queueresume printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue resume change notify
50 message for the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobpause printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job pause change notify
51 message for the printer and unix jobid
52 specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobresume printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job resume change notify
53 message for the printer and unix jobid
54 specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobdelete printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job delete change notify
55 message for the printer and unix jobid
56 specified.</p></dd></dl></div><p>
57 Note that this message only sends notification that an
58 event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the
59 event to happen.
60 </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>
61 Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark.
62 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
63 talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available
64 for both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">drvupgrade</span></dt><dd><p>Force clients of printers using specified driver
65 to update their local version of the driver. Can only be
66 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
67 to <code class="constant">smbd</code>, <code class="constant">nmbd</code>, or <code class="constant">winbindd</code>.
68 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481702"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of
69 the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481714"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a class="citerefentry" href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481738"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
70 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
71 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
72 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
73 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
74 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
75 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
76 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
77 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for
78 Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>
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