VFSTEST(1) User Commands VFSTEST(1)
NAME
vfstest - tool for testing samba VFS modules
SYNOPSIS
vfstest [-d debuglevel] [-c command] [-l logdir] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
vfstest is a small command line utility that has the ability to test dso samba VFS modules. It gives the user the ability to call the
various VFS functions manually and supports cascaded VFS modules.
OPTIONS
-c|--command=command
Execute the specified (colon-separated) commands. See below for the commands that are available.
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-l|--logfile=logbasename
File name for log/debug files. The extension '.client' will be appended. The log file is never removed by the client.
-d|--debuglevel=level
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0.
The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical
errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are
designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log level parameter in the smb.conf file.
-V
Prints the program version number.
-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.
-l|--log-basename=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
file is never removed by the client.
COMMANDS
VFS COMMANDS
o load <module.so> - Load specified VFS module
o populate <char> <size> - Populate a data buffer with the specified data
o showdata [<offset> <len>] - Show data currently in data buffer
o connect - VFS connect()
o disconnect - VFS disconnect()
o disk_free - VFS disk_free()
o opendir - VFS opendir()
o readdir - VFS readdir()
o mkdir - VFS mkdir()
o rmdir - VFS rmdir()
o closedir - VFS closedir()
o open - VFS open()
o close - VFS close()
o read - VFS read()
o write - VFS write()
o lseek - VFS lseek()
o rename - VFS rename()
o fsync - VFS fsync()
o stat - VFS stat()
o fstat - VFS fstat()
o lstat - VFS lstat()
o unlink - VFS unlink()
o chmod - VFS chmod()
o fchmod - VFS fchmod()
o chown - VFS chown()
o fchown - VFS fchown()
o chdir - VFS chdir()
o getwd - VFS getwd()
o utime - VFS utime()
o ftruncate - VFS ftruncate()
o lock - VFS lock()
o symlink - VFS symlink()
o readlink - VFS readlink()
o link - VFS link()
o mknod - VFS mknod()
o realpath - VFS realpath()
GENERAL COMMANDS
o conf <smb.conf> - Load a different configuration file
o help [<command>] - Get list of commands or info about specified command
o debuglevel <level> - Set debug level
o freemem - Free memory currently in use
o exit - Exit vfstest
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
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 vfstest man page was written by Jelmer Vernooij.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+----------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+----------------------+
|Availability | SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbau |
+--------------------+----------------------+
|Interface Stability | External |
+--------------------+----------------------+
NOTES
Source for Samba is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be seen from the following example:
$ svcs samba wins winbind swat
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/samba:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/winbind:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/wins:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/swat:default
where the services are:
"samba"
runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions
"wins"
runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)
"winbind"
runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap
"swat"
Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing access to browser-based Samba administration interface and on-line documentation.
The service runs on software loopback network interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening "http://localhost:901/" in browser will access
the SWAT service on local machine.
Please note: SWAT uses HTTP Basic Authentication scheme where user name and passwords are sent over the network in clear text. In the SWAT
case the user name is root. Transferring such sensitive data is advisable only on the software loopback network interface or over secure
networks.
Samba 3.0 01/19/2009 VFSTEST(1)