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1 perry 1 SMBCONTROL
2 !!!SMBCONTROL
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 VERSION
8 SEE ALSO
9 AUTHOR
10 ----
11 !!NAME
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14 smbcontrol - send messages to smbd or nmbd processes
15 !!SYNOPSIS
16
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18 __smbcontrol__ [[ __-i__ ]
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21 __smbcontrol__ [[ __destination__ ] [[
22 __message-type__ ] [[ __parameter__ ]
23 !!DESCRIPTION
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26 This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
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29 __smbcontrol__ is a very small program, which sends
30 messages to an smbd(8)or an nmbd(8)daemon running on the
31 system.
32 !!OPTIONS
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35 __-i__
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38 Run interactively. Individual commands of the form
39 destination message-type parameters can be entered on STDIN.
40 An empty command line or a
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43 __destination__
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46 One of ''nmbd smbd'' or a process ID.
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49 The ''smbd'' destination causes the message to
50 ''
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53 The ''nmbd'' destination causes the message to be sent to
54 the nmbd daemon specified in the ''nmbd.pid''
55 file.
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58 If a single process ID is given, the message is sent to only
59 that process.
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62 __message-type__
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65 One of: close-share, debug, force-election, ping , profile,
66 debuglevel, profilelevel, or printer-notify.
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69 The close-share message-type sends a message to smbd which
70 will then close the client connections to the named share.
71 Note that this doesn't affect client connections to any
72 other shares. This message-type takes an argument of the
73 share name for which client connections will be close, or
74 the
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77 The debug message-type allows the debug level to be set to
78 the value specified by the parameter. This can be sent to
79 any of the destinations.
80
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82 The force-election message-type can only be sent to the nmbd
83 destination. This message causes the __nmbd__ daemon to
84 force a new browse master election.
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87 The ping message-type sends the number of
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90 The profile message-type sends a message to an smbd to
91 change the profile settings based on the parameter. The
92 parameter can be
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95 The debuglevel message-type sends a
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98 The profilelevel message-type sends a
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101 The printer-notify message-type sends a message to smbd
102 which in turn sends a printer notify message to any Windows
103 NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type takes
104 an argument of the printer name to send notify messages to.
105 This message can only be sent to smbd.
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108 The close-share message-type sends a message to smbd which
109 forces smbd to close the share that was specified as an
110 argument. This may be useful if you made changes to the
111 access controls on the share.
112
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114 __parameters__
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117 any parameters required for the message-type
118 !!VERSION
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121 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba
122 suite.
123 !!SEE ALSO
124
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126 __nmbd(8)__, and __smbd(8)__.
127 !!AUTHOR
128
129
130 The original Samba software and related utilities were
131 created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
132 Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
133 Linux kernel is developed.
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136 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
137 man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
138 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
139 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
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