testprns(1) [redhat man page]
TESTPRNS(1) TESTPRNS(1) NAME
testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd SYNOPSIS
testprns printername [ printcapname ] DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite. testprns is a very simple test program to determine whether a given printer name is valid for use in a service to be provided by smbd(8) "Valid" in this context means "can be found in the printcap specified". This program is very stupid - so stupid in fact that it would be wisest to always specify the printcap file to use. OPTIONS
printername The printer name to validate. Printer names are taken from the first field in each record in the printcap file, single printer names and sets of aliases separated by vertical bars ("|") are recognized. Note that no validation or checking of the printcap syntax is done beyond that required to extract the printer name. It may be that the print spooling system is more forgiving or less forgiving than testprns. However, if testprns finds the printer then smbd should do so as well. printcapname This is the name of the printcap file within which to search for the given printer name. If no printcap name is specified testprns will attempt to scan the printcap file name specified at compile time. FILES
/etc/printcap This is usually the default printcap file to scan. See printcap (5). DIAGNOSTICS
If a printer is found to be valid, the message "Printer name <printername> is valid" will be displayed. If a printer is found to be invalid, the message "Printer name <printername> is not valid" will be displayed. All messages that would normally be logged during operation of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to the file test.log in the current directory. The program runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging information is written. The log should be checked carefully for errors and warnings. Other messages are self-explanatory. VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO
printcap(5), smbd(8) smbclient(1) 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/ <URL: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 19 November 2002 TESTPRNS(1)
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SMBCONTROL(1) SMBCONTROL(1) NAME
smbcontrol - send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes SYNOPSIS
smbcontrol [ -d <debug level> ] [ -s <smb config file> ] -i smbcontrol [ -d <debug level> ] [ -s <smb config file> ] destination message-type [ parameter ] DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite. smbcontrol is a very small program, which sends messages to an smbd(8) an nmbd(8) or a winbindd(8) daemon running on the system. OPTIONS
-d <debuglevel> debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10. -s <smb.conf> This parameter specifies the pathname to the Samba configuration file, smb.conf(5) This file controls all aspects of the Samba set- up on the machine. -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 One of: close-share, debug, force-election, ping , profile, debuglevel, profilelevel, or printer-notify. The close-share message-type sends a message to smbd which will then 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 con- nections 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. The debug message-type allows the debug level to be set to the value specified by the parameter. This can be sent to any of the des- tinations. The force-election message-type can only be sent to the nmbd destination. This message causes the nmbd daemon to force a new browse master election. The ping message-type sends the number of "ping" messages specified by the parameter and waits for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to any of the destinations. The profile message-type sends a message to an smbd to change the profile settings 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. The debuglevel message-type sends a "request debug level" message. The current debug level setting is returned by a "debuglevel" message. This can be sent to any of the destinations. The profilelevel message-type sends a "request profile level" message. The current profile level setting is returned by a "pro- filelevel" message. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations. The printer-notify message-type sends a message to smbd which in turn sends a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients con- nected to a printer. This message-type takes an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to. This message can only be sent to smbd. parameters any parameters required for the message-type VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 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/ <URL: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 19 November 2002 SMBCONTROL(1)