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5 <refentrytitle>smbcontrol</refentrytitle>
6 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
11 <refname>smbcontrol</refname>
12 <refpurpose>send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</refpurpose>
17 <command>smbcontrol</command>
22 <command>smbcontrol</command>
23 <arg>destination</arg>
24 <arg>message-type</arg>
30 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
32 <para>This tool is part of the <ulink url="samba.7.html">
33 Samba</ulink> suite.</para>
35 <para><command>smbcontrol</command> is a very small program, which
36 sends messages to an <ulink url="smbd.8.html">smbd(8)</ulink>,
37 an <ulink url="nmbd.8.html">nmbd(8)</ulink>
38 or a <ulink url="winbindd.8.html">winbindd(8)</ulink>
39 daemon running on the system.</para>
44 <title>OPTIONS</title>
49 <listitem><para>Run interactively. Individual commands
50 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
51 on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
52 program.</para></listitem>
56 <term>destination</term>
57 <listitem><para>One of <parameter>nmbd</parameter>
58 <parameter>smbd</parameter> or a process ID.</para>
60 <para>The <parameter>smbd</parameter> destination causes the
61 message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.</para>
63 <para>The <parameter>nmbd</parameter> destination causes the
64 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
65 <filename>nmbd.pid</filename> file.</para>
67 <para>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
68 to only that process.</para></listitem>
73 <term>message-type</term>
74 <listitem><para>One of: <constant>close-share</constant>,
75 <constant>debug</constant>,
76 <constant>force-election</constant>, <constant>ping
77 </constant>, <constant>profile</constant>, <constant>
78 debuglevel</constant>, <constant>profilelevel</constant>,
79 or <constant>printnotify</constant>.</para>
81 <para>The <constant>close-share</constant> message-type sends a
82 message to smbd which will then close the client connections to
83 the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client connections
84 to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
85 share name for which client connections will be closed, or the
86 "*" character which will close all currently open shares.
87 This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share.
88 This message can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>.</para>
90 <para>The <constant>debug</constant> message-type allows
91 the debug level to be set to the value specified by the
92 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.</para>
94 <para>The <constant>force-election</constant> message-type can only be
95 sent to the <constant>nmbd</constant> destination. This message
96 causes the <command>nmbd</command> daemon to force a new browse
97 master election.</para>
99 <para>The <constant>ping</constant> message-type sends the
100 number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits
101 for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
102 any of the destinations.</para>
104 <para>The <constant>profile</constant> message-type sends a
105 message to an smbd to change the profile settings based on the
106 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
107 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
108 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
109 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
110 be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</para>
112 <para>The <constant>debuglevel</constant> message-type sends
113 a "request debug level" message. The current debug level setting
114 is returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be
115 sent to any of the destinations.</para>
117 <para>The <constant>profilelevel</constant> message-type sends
118 a "request profile level" message. The current profile level
119 setting is returned by a "profilelevel" message. This can be sent
120 to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</para>
122 <para>The <constant>printnotify</constant> message-type sends a
123 message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to
124 any Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type
125 takes the following arguments:
130 <term>queuepause printername</term>
131 <listitem><para>Send a queue pause change notify
132 message to the printer specified.</para></listitem>
136 <term>queueresume printername</term>
137 <listitem><para>Send a queue resume change notify
138 message for the printer specified.</para></listitem>
142 <term>jobpause printername unixjobid</term>
143 <listitem><para>Send a job pause change notify
144 message for the printer and unix jobid
145 specified.</para></listitem>
149 <term>jobresume printername unixjobid</term>
150 <listitem><para>Send a job resume change notify
151 message for the printer and unix jobid
152 specified.</para></listitem>
156 <term>jobdelete printername unixjobid</term>
157 <listitem><para>Send a job delete change notify
158 message for the printer and unix jobid
159 specified.</para></listitem>
164 Note that this message only sends notification that an
165 event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the
168 This message can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>.
176 <term>parameters</term>
177 <listitem><para>any parameters required for the message-type</para>
185 <title>VERSION</title>
187 <para>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
188 the Samba suite.</para>
192 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
193 <para><ulink url="nmbd.8.html"><command>nmbd(8)</command></ulink>,
194 and <ulink url="smbd.8.html"><command>smbd(8)</command></ulink>.
199 <title>AUTHOR</title>
201 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
202 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
203 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
204 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
206 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
207 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
208 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
209 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
210 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
211 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
212 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>