SMBCONTROL(1)															     SMBCONTROL(1)

NAME

       smbcontrol - send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes

SYNOPSIS

       smbcontrol [-i] [-s]

       smbcontrol [destination] [message-type] [parameter]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       smbcontrol is a very small program, which sends messages to a smbd(8), a nmbd(8), or a winbindd(8) daemon running on the system.

OPTIONS

       -h|--help
	  Print a summary of command line options.

       -s <configuration file>
	  The  file  specified	contains  the  configuration details required by the server. The information in this file includes server-specific
	  information such as what printcap file to use, as well as descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide.  See  smb.conf
	  for more information. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time.

       -i
	  Run interactively. Individual commands of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered on STDIN. An empty command line or
	  a "q" will quit the program.

       destination
	  One of nmbd, smbd or a process ID.

	  The smbd destination causes the message to "broadcast" to all smbd daemons.

	  The nmbd destination causes the message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the nmbd.pid file.

	  If a single process ID is given, the message is sent to only that process.

       message-type
	  Type of message to send. See the section MESSAGE-TYPES for details.

       parameters
	  any parameters required for the message-type

MESSAGE-TYPES
       Available message types are:

       close-share
	  Order smbd to close the client connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client connections  to  any  other  shares.
	  This message-type takes an argument of the share name for which client connections will be closed, or the "*" character which will close
	  all currently open shares. This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share. This message can only be sent	to
	  smbd.

       debug
	  Set debug level to the value specified by the parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.

       force-election
	  This message causes the nmbd daemon to force a new browse master election.

       ping
	  Send	specified number of "ping" messages and wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to any of the destina-
	  tions.

       profile
	  Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile  stats  collection,  "off"	to
	  turn	off  profile stats collection, "count" to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are disabled), and "flush" to zero the
	  current profile stats. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.

       debuglevel
	  Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This can be sent to any of the destinations.

       profilelevel
	  Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.

       printnotify
	  Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients connected to a printer.  This  message-type  takes  the  following
	  arguments:

	     queuepause printername
		Send a queue pause change notify message to the printer specified.

	     queueresume printername
		Send a queue resume change notify message for the printer specified.

	     jobpause printername unixjobid
		Send a job pause change notify message for the printer and unix jobid specified.

	     jobresume printername unixjobid
		Send a job resume change notify message for the printer and unix jobid specified.

	     jobdelete printername unixjobid
		Send a job delete change notify message for the printer and unix jobid specified.

	     Note that this message only sends notification that an event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the event to happen.

	     This message can only be sent to smbd.

       samsync
	  Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being BDC). Can only be sent to smbd.

	  Note
	  Not working at the moment

       samrepl
	  Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can only be sent to smbd. Should not be used manually.

       dmalloc-mark
	  Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support.

       dmalloc-log-changed
	  Dump	the  pointers  that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is
	  built with dmalloc support.

       shutdown
	  Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.

       pool-usage
	  Print a human-readable description of all talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available for both smbd and nmbd.

       drvupgrade
	  Force clients of printers using specified driver to update their local version of the driver. Can only be sent to smbd.

       reload-config
	  Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent to smbd, nmbd, or winbindd.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       nmbd(8) and smbd(8).

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the  Samba	Team  as  an  Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
       Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The  conversion	to
       DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

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