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NAME
smbcontrol - send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd
processes
SYNOPSIS
smbcontrol [ -d <debug level> ] [ -s <smb config file> ]
-i
smbcontrol [ -d <debug level> ] [ -s <smb config file> ]
destination message-type [ parameter ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
smbcontrol is a very small program, which sends messages to
an smbd(8) an nmbd(8) or a winbindd(8) daemon running on the
system.
OPTIONS
-d <debuglevel>
debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10.
-s <smb.conf>
This parameter specifies the pathname to the Samba
configuration file, smb.conf(5) This file controls all
aspects of the Samba setup on the machine.
-i Run interactively. Individual commands of the form
destination message-type parameters can be entered on
STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
program.
destination
One of nmbd smbd or a process ID.
The smbd destination causes the message to "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
One of: close-share, debug, force-election, ping ,
profile, debuglevel, profilelevel, or printer-notify.
The close-share message-type sends a message to smbd
which will then close the client connections to the
named share. Note that this doesn't affect client
connections to any other shares. This message-type
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takes an argument of the share name for which client
connections will be closed, or the "*" character which
will close all currently open shares. This may be
useful if you made changes to the access controls on
the share. This message can only be sent to smbd.
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.
The profile message-type sends a message to an smbd to
change the profile settings based on the parameter. The
parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection,
"count" to enable only collection of count stats (time
stats are disabled), and "flush" to zero the current
profile stats. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd
destinations.
The debuglevel message-type sends a "request debug
level" message. The current debug level setting is
returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be sent to
any of the destinations.
The profilelevel message-type sends a "request profile
level" message. The current profile level setting is
returned by a "profilelevel" message. This can be sent
to any smbd or nmbd destinations.
The printer-notify message-type sends a message to smbd
which in turn sends a printer notify message to any
Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This
message-type takes an argument of the printer name to
send notify messages to. This message can only be sent
to smbd.
parameters
any parameters required for the message-type
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
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AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
<URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the
Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
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