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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<refentry id="smbcontrol.1">
+
+<refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>smbcontrol</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version">&doc.version;</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+ <refname>smbcontrol</refname>
+ <refpurpose>send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>smbcontrol</command>
+ <arg choice="opt">-?|--help</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--usage</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-t|--timeout</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--debug-stdout</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--configfile=CONFIGFILE</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--option=name=value</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-l|--log-basename=LOGFILEBASE</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--leak-report</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">--leak-report-full</arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>smbcontrol</command>
+ <arg>destination</arg>
+ <arg>message-type</arg>
+ <arg>parameter</arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+
+ <para><command>smbcontrol</command> is a very small program, which
+ sends messages to a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, or a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>winbindd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> daemon running on the system.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-t|--timeout</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Set timeout to seconds.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>destination</term>
+ <listitem><para>One of <parameter>nmbd</parameter>,
+ <parameter>smbd</parameter>, <parameter>winbindd</parameter>
+ or a process ID.</para>
+
+ <para>The <parameter>all</parameter> destination causes the
+ message to "broadcast" to all running daemons including nmbd and
+ winbind. This is a change for Samba 3.3, prior to this the
+ parameter smbd used to do this.</para>
+
+ <para>The <parameter>smbd</parameter> destination causes the
+ message to be sent to the smbd daemon specified in the
+ <filename>smbd.pid</filename> file.</para>
+
+ <para>The <parameter>nmbd</parameter> destination causes the
+ message to be sent to the nmbd daemon specified in the
+ <filename>nmbd.pid</filename> file.</para>
+
+ <para>The <parameter>winbindd</parameter> destination causes the
+ message to be sent to the winbind daemon specified in the
+ <filename>winbindd.pid</filename> file.</para>
+
+ <para>If a single process ID is given, the message is sent
+ to only that process.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>message-type</term>
+ <listitem><para>Type of message to send. See
+ the section <constant>MESSAGE-TYPES</constant> for details.
+ </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>parameters</term>
+ <listitem><para>any parameters required for the message-type</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ &popt.autohelp;
+ &cmdline.common.samba.client;
+ </variablelist>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>MESSAGE-TYPES</title>
+
+ <para>Available message types are:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry><term>close-share</term>
+ <listitem><para>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 <constant>smbd</constant>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>close-denied-share</term>
+ <listitem><para>Behave like <constant>close-share</constant>,
+ but don't disconnect users that are still allowed to access
+ the share. It can safely be sent to all smbds after changing
+ share access controls. It will only affect users who have been
+ denied access since having connected initially. This message
+ can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>debug</term>
+ <listitem><para>Set debug level to the value specified by the
+ parameter. This can be sent to any of the destinations. If this
+ message is sent to either the smbd or winbindd daemons, the parent
+ process will rebroadcast the message to all child processes changing
+ the debug level in each one.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>kill-client-ip</term>
+ <listitem><para>Order smbd to close the client connections from a
+ given IP address. This message-type takes an argument of the IP
+ address from which client connections will be closed. This message
+ can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>force-election</term>
+ <listitem><para>This message causes the <command>nmbd</command> daemon to
+ force a new browse master election. </para>
+ </listitem></varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>ping</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Send specified number of "ping" messages and
+ wait for the same number of reply "pong" messages. This can be sent to
+ any of the destinations.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>profile</term>
+ <listitem><para>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.</para>
+ </listitem></varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>debuglevel</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout. This
+ can be sent to any of the destinations.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>profilelevel</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to stdout.
+ This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>printnotify</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any Windows NT clients
+ connected to a printer. This message-type takes the following arguments:
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>queuepause printername</term>
+ <listitem><para>Send a queue pause change notify
+ message to the printer specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>queueresume printername</term>
+ <listitem><para>Send a queue resume change notify
+ message for the printer specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>jobpause printername unixjobid</term>
+ <listitem><para>Send a job pause change notify
+ message for the printer and unix jobid
+ specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>jobresume printername unixjobid</term>
+ <listitem><para>Send a job resume change notify
+ message for the printer and unix jobid
+ specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>jobdelete printername unixjobid</term>
+ <listitem><para>Send a job delete change notify
+ message for the printer and unix jobid
+ specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that this message only sends notification that an
+ event has occurred. It doesn't actually cause the
+ event to happen.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>This message can only be sent to <constant>smbd</constant>. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>dmalloc-mark</term>
+ <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>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>dmalloc-log-changed</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ 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. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>shutdown</term>
+ <listitem><para>Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and nmbd.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>pool-usage</term>
+ <listitem><para>Print a human-readable description of all
+ talloc(pool) memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available
+ for both smbd and nmbd.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>ringbuf-log</term>
+ <listitem><para>Fetch and print the ringbuf log. Requires
+ <parameter>logging = ringbuf</parameter>. Available for smbd, winbindd
+ and nmbd.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>drvupgrade</term>
+ <listitem><para>Force clients of printers using specified driver
+ to update their local version of the driver. Can only be
+ sent to smbd.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>reload-config</term>
+ <listitem><para>Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent
+ to <constant>smbd</constant>, <constant>nmbd</constant>, or <constant>winbindd</constant>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>reload-printers</term>
+ <listitem><para>Force smbd to reload printers. Can only be sent to
+ <constant>smbd</constant>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>idmap</term>
+ <listitem><para>Notify about changes of id mapping. Can be sent
+ to <constant>smbd</constant> or (not implemented yet) <constant>winbindd</constant>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>flush [uid|gid]</term>
+ <listitem><para>Flush caches for sid &lt;-&gt; gid and/or sid &lt;-&gt; uid mapping.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>delete &lt;ID&gt;</term>
+ <listitem><para>Remove a mapping from cache. The mapping is given by &lt;ID&gt;
+ which may either be a sid: S-x-..., a gid: "GID number" or a uid: "UID number".
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>kill &lt;ID&gt;</term>
+ <listitem><para>Remove a mapping from cache. Terminate <constant>smbd</constant> if
+ the id is currently in use.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>num-children</term>
+ <listitem><para>Query the number of smbd child processes. This
+ message can only be sent
+ to <constant>smbd</constant>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>VERSION</title>
+
+ <para>This man page is part of version &doc.version; of
+ the Samba suite.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>