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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
47 , profile, debuglevel, profilelevel,
50 The debug message-type allows
51 the debug level to be set to the value specified by the
52 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
54 The force-election message-type can only be
55 sent to the nmbd destination. This message
56 causes the \fBnmbd\fR daemon to force a new browse
59 The ping message-type sends the
60 number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits
61 for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
62 any of the destinations.
64 The profile message-type sends a
65 message to an smbd to change the profile settings based on the
66 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
67 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
68 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
69 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
70 be sent to any of the destinations.
72 The debuglevel message-type sends
73 a "request debug level" message. The current debug level setting
74 is returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be
75 sent to any of the destinations.
77 The profilelevel message-type sends
78 a "request profile level" message. The current profile level
79 setting is returned by a "profilelevel" message. This can be sent
80 to any of the destinations.
82 The printer-notify message-type sends a
83 message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to
84 any Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type
85 takes an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to.
86 This message can only be sent to smbd.
88 The close-share message-type sends a
89 message to smbd which forces smbd to close the share that was
90 specified as an argument. This may be useful if you made changes
91 to the access controls on the share.
94 any parameters required for the message-type
97 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
105 The original Samba software and related utilities
106 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
107 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
108 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
110 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
111 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
112 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
113 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
114 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
115 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter