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<refentrytitle>smbcontrol</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="version">3.4</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>smbcontrol</refname>
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<refpurpose>send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</refpurpose>
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<command>smbcontrol</command>
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<command>smbcontrol</command>
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<arg>destination</arg>
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<arg>message-type</arg>
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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<para><command>smbcontrol</command> is a very small program, which
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sends messages to a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, or a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>winbindd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> daemon running on the system.</para>
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
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<listitem><para>Run interactively. Individual commands
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of the form destination message-type parameters can be entered
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on STDIN. An empty command line or a "q" will quit the
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program.</para></listitem>
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<term>destination</term>
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<listitem><para>One of <parameter>nmbd</parameter>, <parameter>smbd</parameter> or a process ID.</para>
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<para>The <parameter>all</parameter> destination causes the
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message to "broadcast" to all running daemons including nmbd and
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winbind. This is a change for Samba 3.3, prior to this the
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parameter smbd used to do this.</para>
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<para>The <parameter>smbd</parameter> destination causes the
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message to be sent to the smbd daemon specified in the
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<filename>smbd.pid</filename> file.</para>
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<para>The <parameter>nmbd</parameter> destination causes the
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message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
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<filename>nmbd.pid</filename> file.</para>
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<para>The <parameter>winbindd</parameter> destination causes the
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message to be sent to the winbind daemon specified in the
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<filename>winbindd.pid</filename> file.</para>
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<para>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
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to only that process.</para></listitem>
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<term>message-type</term>
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<listitem><para>Type of message to send. See
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the section <constant>MESSAGE-TYPES</constant> for details.
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</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<term>parameters</term>
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<listitem><para>any parameters required for the message-type</para>
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<title>MESSAGE-TYPES</title>
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<para>Available message types are:</para>
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<varlistentry><term>close-share</term>
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<listitem><para>Order smbd to close the client
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connections to the named share. Note that this doesn't affect client
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connections to any other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
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share name for which client connections will be closed, or the
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"*" character which will close all currently open shares.
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This may be useful if you made changes to the access controls on the share.
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This message can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>.</para>
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<listitem><para>Set debug level to the value specified by the
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parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations.</para>
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<term>force-election</term>
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<listitem><para>This message causes the <command>nmbd</command> daemon to
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force a new browse master election. </para>
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</listitem></varlistentry>
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Send specified number of "ping" messages and
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wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
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any of the destinations.</para>
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<listitem><para>Change profile settings of a daemon, based on the
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parameter. The parameter can be "on" to turn on profile stats
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collection, "off" to turn off profile stats collection, "count"
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to enable only collection of count stats (time stats are
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disabled), and "flush" to zero the current profile stats. This can
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be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</para>
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</listitem></varlistentry>
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<term>debuglevel</term>
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Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
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can be sent to any of the destinations.</para>
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<term>profilelevel</term>
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Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout.
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This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</para>
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<term>printnotify</term>
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Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients
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connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments:
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<term>queuepause printername</term>
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<listitem><para>Send a queue pause change notify
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message to the printer specified.</para></listitem>
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<term>queueresume printername</term>
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<listitem><para>Send a queue resume change notify
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message for the printer specified.</para></listitem>
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<term>jobpause printername unixjobid</term>
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<listitem><para>Send a job pause change notify
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message for the printer and unix jobid
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specified.</para></listitem>
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<term>jobresume printername unixjobid</term>
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<listitem><para>Send a job resume change notify
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message for the printer and unix jobid
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specified.</para></listitem>
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<term>jobdelete printername unixjobid</term>
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<listitem><para>Send a job delete change notify
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message for the printer and unix jobid
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specified.</para></listitem>
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Note that this message only sends notification that an
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event has occured. It doesn't actually cause the
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<para>This message can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>. </para>
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<listitem><para>Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being BDC). Can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>. </para>
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<note><para>Not working at the moment</para></note>
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<listitem><para>Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>. Should not be used manually.</para></listitem>
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<term>dmalloc-mark</term>
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<listitem><para>Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </para></listitem>
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<term>dmalloc-log-changed</term>
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Dump the pointers that have changed since the mark set by dmalloc-mark.
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Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support. </para></listitem>
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<term>shutdown</term>
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<listitem><para>Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.</para></listitem>
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<term>pool-usage</term>
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<listitem><para>Print a human-readable description of all
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talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available
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for both smbd and nmbd.</para></listitem>
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<term>drvupgrade</term>
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<listitem><para>Force clients of printers using specified driver
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to update their local version of the driver. Can only be
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sent to smbd.</para></listitem>
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<term>reload-config</term>
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<listitem><para>Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent
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to <constant>smbd</constant>, <constant>nmbd</constant>, or <constant>winbindd</constant>.
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<title>VERSION</title>
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<para>This man page is correct for version 3 of
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the Samba suite.</para>
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<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
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<title>AUTHOR</title>
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<para>The original Samba software and related utilities
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were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
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<para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
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excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
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ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
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release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
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Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for
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Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>