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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 V1.60.1"></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><div></div></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><tt class="command">smbcontrol</tt>  [-i] [-s]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">smbcontrol</tt>  [destination] [message-type] [parameter]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><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><b class="command">smbcontrol</b> is a very small program, which
   2         sends messages to a <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, a <a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, or a <a 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"><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 &lt;configuration file&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
   4 configuration details required by the server.  The
   5 information in this file includes server-specific
   6 information such as what printcap file to use, as well
   7 as descriptions of all the services that the server is
   8 to provide. See <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> for more information.
   9 The default configuration file name is determined at
  10 compile 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 <i class="parameter"><tt>nmbd</tt></i>, <i class="parameter"><tt>smbd</tt></i> or a process ID.</p><p>The <i class="parameter"><tt>smbd</tt></i> destination causes the
  14                 message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.</p><p>The <i class="parameter"><tt>nmbd</tt></i> destination causes the
  15                 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
  16                 <tt class="filename">nmbd.pid</tt> file.</p><p>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
  17                 to only that process.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">message-type</span></dt><dd><p>Type of message to send. See
  18                 the section <tt class="constant">MESSAGE-TYPES</tt> for details.
  19                 </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"><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
  20         connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client
  21         connections to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
  22         share name for which client connections will be closed, or the
  23         "*" character which will close all currently open shares.
  24         This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share.
  25         This message can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debug</span></dt><dd><p>Set debug level to the value specified by the
  26         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 <b class="command">nmbd</b> daemon to
  27         force a new browse master election. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ping</span></dt><dd><p>
  28         Send specified number of "ping" messages and
  29         wait for the same number of  reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
  30         any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profile</span></dt><dd><p>Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the
  31         parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
  32         collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
  33         to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
  34         disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
  35         be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p>
  36         Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
  37         can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profilelevel</span></dt><dd><p>
  38         Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout.
  39         This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">printnotify</span></dt><dd><p>
  40         Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients
  41         connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments:
  42         </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">queuepause printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue pause change notify
  43             message to the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">queueresume printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue resume change notify
  44             message for the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobpause printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job pause change notify
  45             message for the printer and unix jobid
  46             specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobresume printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job resume change notify
  47             message for the printer and unix jobid
  48             specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobdelete printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job delete change notify
  49             message for the printer and unix jobid
  50             specified.</p></dd></dl></div><p>
  51         Note that this message only sends notification that an
  52         event has occured.  It doesn't actually cause the
  53         event to happen.
  54         </p><p>This message can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. </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 <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. </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 <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. 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>
  55         Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark.
  56         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
  57         talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available
  58         for both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">drvupgrade</span></dt><dd><p>Force clients of printers using specified driver
  59         to update their local version of the driver. Can only be
  60         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
  61         to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>, <tt class="constant">nmbd</tt>, or <tt class="constant">winbindd</tt>.
  62         </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
  63         the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
  64         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
  65         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
  66         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
  67         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
  68         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
  69         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
  70         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
  71         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for
  72         Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>