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8 smbcontrol \- send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes
11 \fBsmbcontrol\fR [ \fB-i\fR ]
13 \fBsmbcontrol\fR [ \fBdestination\fR ] [ \fBmessage-type\fR ] [ \fBparameter\fR ]
16 This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
18 \fBsmbcontrol\fR is a very small program, which
19 sends messages to an smbd(8),
22 daemon running on the system.
26 Run interactively. Individual commands
27 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
28 on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
33 \fIsmbd\fR or a process ID.
35 The \fIsmbd\fR destination causes the
36 message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.
38 The \fInmbd\fR destination causes the
39 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
42 If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
49 , profile, debuglevel, profilelevel,
52 The close-share message-type sends a
53 message to smbd which will then close the client connections to
54 the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client connections
55 to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
56 share name for which client connections will be closed, or the
57 "*" character which will close all currently open shares.
58 This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share.
59 This message can only be sent to smbd.
61 The debug message-type allows
62 the debug level to be set to the value specified by the
63 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
65 The force-election message-type can only be
66 sent to the nmbd destination. This message
67 causes the \fBnmbd\fR daemon to force a new browse
70 The ping message-type sends the
71 number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits
72 for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
73 any of the destinations.
75 The profile message-type sends a
76 message to an smbd to change the profile settings based on the
77 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
78 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
79 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
80 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
81 be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.
83 The debuglevel message-type sends
84 a "request debug level" message. The current debug level setting
85 is returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be
86 sent to any of the destinations.
88 The profilelevel message-type sends
89 a "request profile level" message. The current profile level
90 setting is returned by a "profilelevel" message. This can be sent
91 to any smbd or nmbd destinations.
93 The printer-notify message-type sends a
94 message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to
95 any Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type
96 takes an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to.
97 This message can only be sent to smbd.
100 any parameters required for the message-type
103 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
111 The original Samba software and related utilities
112 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
113 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
114 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
116 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
117 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
118 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
119 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
120 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
121 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter