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27 >smbcontrol
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send messages to smbd or nmbd processes
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44 > [destination] [message-type] [parameter]
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54 >This tool is part of the
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63 > is a very small program, which
64 sends messages to an
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73 > daemon running on the
92 >Run interactively. Individual commands
93 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
94 on STDIN. An empty command line or a
"q" will quit the
112 > or a process ID.
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119 > destination causes the
120 message to
"broadcast" to all smbd daemons.
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127 > destination causes the
128 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
134 >If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
135 to only that process.
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170 > message-type allows
171 the debug level to be set to the value specified by the
172 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
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177 > message-type can only be
181 > destination. This message
185 > daemon to force a new browse
191 > message-type sends the
192 number of
"ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits
193 for the same number of reply
"pong" messages. This can be sent to
194 any of the destinations.
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199 > message-type sends a
200 message to an smbd to change the profile settings based on the
201 parameter. The parameter can be
"on" to turn on profile stats
202 collection,
"off" to turn off profile stats collection,
"count"
203 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
204 disabled), and
"flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
205 be sent to any of the destinations.
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211 a
"request debug level" message. The current debug level setting
212 is returned by a
"debuglevel" message. This can be
213 sent to any of the destinations.
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219 a
"request profile level" message. The current profile level
220 setting is returned by a
"profilelevel" message. This can be sent
221 to any of the destinations.
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226 > message-type sends a
227 message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to
228 any Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type
229 takes an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to.
230 This message can only be sent to
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238 > message-type sends a
239 message to smbd which forces smbd to close the share that was
240 specified as an argument. This may be useful if you made changes
241 to the access controls on the share.
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247 >any parameters required for the message-type
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260 >This man page is correct for version
2.2 of
297 >The original Samba software and related utilities
298 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
299 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
300 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
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302 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
303 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
304 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
306 HREF=
"ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
308 > ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
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309 >) and updated for the Samba
2.0
310 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
311 Samba
2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
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