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8 smbcontrol \- send messages to smbd or nmbd 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)or
20 an nmbd(8)daemon running on the
25 Run interactively. Individual commands
26 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
27 on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
32 \fIsmbd\fR or a process ID.
34 The \fIsmbd\fR destination causes the
35 message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.
37 The \fInmbd\fR destination causes the
38 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
41 If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
48 , profile, debuglevel, profilelevel,
51 The close-share message-type sends a
52 message to smbd which will then close the client connections to
53 the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client connections
54 to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
55 share name for which client connections will be close, or the
56 "*" character which will close all currently open shares.
57 This message can only be sent to smbd.
59 The debug message-type allows
60 the debug level to be set to the value specified by the
61 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
63 The force-election message-type can only be
64 sent to the nmbd destination. This message
65 causes the \fBnmbd\fR daemon to force a new browse
68 The ping message-type sends the
69 number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits
70 for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
71 any of the destinations.
73 The profile message-type sends a
74 message to an smbd to change the profile settings based on the
75 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
76 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
77 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
78 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
79 be sent to any of the destinations.
81 The debuglevel message-type sends
82 a "request debug level" message. The current debug level setting
83 is returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be
84 sent to any of the destinations.
86 The profilelevel message-type sends
87 a "request profile level" message. The current profile level
88 setting is returned by a "profilelevel" message. This can be sent
89 to any of the destinations.
91 The printer-notify message-type sends a
92 message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to
93 any Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type
94 takes an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to.
95 This message can only be sent to smbd.
97 The close-share message-type sends a
98 message to smbd which forces smbd to close the share that was
99 specified as an argument. This may be useful if you made changes
100 to the access controls on the share.
103 any parameters required for the message-type
106 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
114 The original Samba software and related utilities
115 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
116 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
117 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
119 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
120 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
121 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
122 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
123 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
124 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter