smbcontrol 1 Samba User Commands &doc.version;
smbcontrol send messages to smbd, nmbd or winbindd processes
`smbcontrol` -s -t|--timeout `smbcontrol` destination message-type parameter

## DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba 7 suite.

`smbcontrol` is a very small program, which sends messages to a smbd 8, a nmbd 8, or a winbindd 8 daemon running on the system.

## OPTIONS

&popt.autohelp; &popt.common.samba.client;
-t|--timeout

  Set timeout to seconds.

destination

  One of nmbd, smbd, winbindd 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.

kill-client-ip

  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 `smbd`.

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`.

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.

ringbuf-log

  Fetch and print the ringbuf log. Requires logging = ringbuf. Available for smbd, winbindd 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`.

reload-printers

  Force smbd to reload printers. Can only be sent to `smbd`.

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.

num-children

  Query the number of smbd child processes. This message can only be sent to `smbd`.

## VERSION

This man page is part of version &doc.version; 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.