OPTIONS¶
-?|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-s|--configfile <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.
-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 all 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.
The smbd destination causes the message to be sent to the
smbd daemon specified in the smbd.pid file.
The nmbd destination causes the message to be sent to the
nmbd daemon specified in the nmbd.pid file.
The winbindd destination causes the message to be sent to
the winbind daemon specified in the winbindd.pid file.
If a single process ID is given, the message is sent to only that
process.
message-type
Type of message to send. See the section
MESSAGE-TYPES for details.
parameters
any parameters required for the message-type
MESSAGE-TYPES¶
Available message types are:
close-share
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
smbd.
debug
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.
force-election
This message causes the nmbd daemon to force a new browse
master election.
ping
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.
profile
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.
debuglevel
Request debuglevel of a certain daemon and write it to
stdout. This can be sent to any of the destinations.
profilelevel
Request profilelevel of a certain daemon and write it to
stdout. This can be sent to any smbd or nmbd destinations.
printnotify
Order smbd to send a printer notify message to any
Windows NT clients connected to a printer. This message-type takes the
following arguments:
queuepause printername
Send a queue pause change notify message to the printer
specified.
queueresume printername
Send a queue resume change notify message for the printer
specified.
jobpause printername unixjobid
Send a job pause change notify message for the printer
and unix jobid specified.
jobresume printername unixjobid
Send a job resume change notify message for the printer
and unix jobid specified.
jobdelete printername unixjobid
Send a job delete change notify message for the printer
and unix jobid specified.
Note that this message only sends notification that an event has
occurred. It doesn't actually cause the event to happen.
This message can only be sent to smbd.
samsync
Order smbd to synchronise sam database from PDC (being
BDC). Can only be sent to
smbd.
Note
Not working at the moment
samrepl
Send sam replication message, with specified serial. Can
only be sent to smbd. Should not be used manually.
dmalloc-mark
Set a mark for dmalloc. Can be sent to both smbd and
nmbd. Only available if samba is built with dmalloc support.
dmalloc-log-changed
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.
shutdown
Shut down specified daemon. Can be sent to both smbd and
nmbd.
pool-usage
Print a human-readable description of all talloc(pool)
memory usage by the specified daemon/process. Available for both smbd and
nmbd.
drvupgrade
Force clients of printers using specified driver to
update their local version of the driver. Can only be sent to smbd.
reload-config
Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can
be sent to smbd, nmbd, or winbindd.
idmap
Notify about changes of id mapping. Can be sent to
smbd or (not implemented yet)
winbindd.
flush [uid|gid]
Flush caches for sid <-> gid and/or sid <->
uid mapping.
delete <ID>
Remove a mapping from cache. The mapping is given by
<ID> which may either be a sid: S-x-..., a gid: "GID number"
or a uid: "UID number".
kill <ID>
Remove a mapping from cache. Terminate smbd if the
id is currently in use.