1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbcontrol</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbcontrol.1"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbcontrol — send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">smbcontrol</tt> [-i] [-s]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">smbcontrol</tt> [destination] [message-type] [parameter]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><b class="command">smbcontrol</b> is a very small program, which 2 sends messages to a <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, a <a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, or a <a href="winbindd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">winbindd</span>(8)</span></a> daemon running on the system.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. 3</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the 4configuration details required by the server. The 5information in this file includes server-specific 6information such as what printcap file to use, as well 7as descriptions of all the services that the server is 8to provide. See <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> for more information. 9The default configuration file name is determined at 10compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i</span></dt><dd><p>Run interactively. Individual commands 11 of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered 12 on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the 13 program.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">destination</span></dt><dd><p>One of <i class="parameter"><tt>nmbd</tt></i>, <i class="parameter"><tt>smbd</tt></i> or a process ID.</p><p>The <i class="parameter"><tt>smbd</tt></i> destination causes the 14 message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.</p><p>The <i class="parameter"><tt>nmbd</tt></i> destination causes the 15 message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the 16 <tt class="filename">nmbd.pid</tt> file.</p><p>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent 17 to only that process.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">message-type</span></dt><dd><p>Type of message to send. See 18 the section <tt class="constant">MESSAGE-TYPES</tt> for details. 19 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">parameters</span></dt><dd><p>any parameters required for the message-type</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>MESSAGE-TYPES</h2><p>Available message types are:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">close-share</span></dt><dd><p>Order smbd to close the client 20 connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client 21 connections to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the 22 share name for which client connections will be closed, or the 23 "*" character which will close all currently open shares. 24 This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share. 25 This message can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debug</span></dt><dd><p>Set debug level to the value specified by the 26 parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">force-election</span></dt><dd><p>This message causes the <b class="command">nmbd</b> daemon to 27 force a new browse master election. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ping</span></dt><dd><p> 28 Send specified number of "ping" messages and 29 wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to 30 any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profile</span></dt><dd><p>Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the 31 parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats 32 collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count" 33 to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are 34 disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can 35 be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p> 36 Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This 37 can be sent to any of the destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">profilelevel</span></dt><dd><p> 38 Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. 39 This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">printnotify</span></dt><dd><p> 40 Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients 41 connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments: 42 </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">queuepause printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue pause change notify 43 message to the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">queueresume printername</span></dt><dd><p>Send a queue resume change notify 44 message for the printer specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobpause printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job pause change notify 45 message for the printer and unix jobid 46 specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobresume printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job resume change notify 47 message for the printer and unix jobid 48 specified.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">jobdelete printername unixjobid</span></dt><dd><p>Send a job delete change notify 49 message for the printer and unix jobid 50 specified.</p></dd></dl></div><p> 51 Note that this message only sends notification that an 52 event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the 53 event to happen. 54 </p><p>This message can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">samsync</span></dt><dd><p>Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being BDC). Can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>Not working at the moment</p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">samrepl</span></dt><dd><p>Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can only be sent to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>. Should not be used manually.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">dmalloc-mark</span></dt><dd><p>Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">dmalloc-log-changed</span></dt><dd><p> 55 Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark. 56 Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">shutdown</span></dt><dd><p>Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">pool-usage</span></dt><dd><p>Print a human-readable description of all 57 talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available 58 for both smbd and nmbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">drvupgrade</span></dt><dd><p>Force clients of printers using specified driver 59 to update their local version of the driver. Can only be 60 sent to smbd.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">reload-config</span></dt><dd><p>Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent 61 to <tt class="constant">smbd</tt>, <tt class="constant">nmbd</tt>, or <tt class="constant">winbindd</tt>. 62 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of 63 the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 64 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 65 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 66 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. 67 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another 68 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top"> 69 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 70 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for 71 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for 72 Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> 73