Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

rpcclient

Synopsis

This is a program for issuing administrative commands that are implemented using Microsoft RPCs. It provides access to the RPCs that Windows administrative GUIs use for system management. The rpcclient command is mainly for use by advanced users who understand the RPCs. More information on these can be found in Microsoft’s Platform Software Development Kit (SDK), available for download from the Microsoft web site at http://www.microsoft.com.

You can run a single rpcclient command by using the -c command string option, or interactively with rpcclient prompting for commands.

Command Synopsis

rpcclient server [options]

Options

-A filename

Specifies a file from which to read the authentication values used in the connection. The format of the file is as follows:

username = value
password = value
domain   = value

This option is used to avoid password prompts or to have the password appear in plain text inside scripts. The permissions on the file should be very restrictive (0600, for example) to prevent access from unwanted users.

-c command_string

Executes a sequence of semicolon-separated commands. Commands are listed in the following section.

-d debuglevel

Sets the debug (sometimes called logging) level. The level can range from 0 to 10. Specifying the value on the command line overrides the value specified in the smb.conf file. Debug level 0 logs only the most important messages; level 1 is normal; levels 3 and above are primarily for debugging and slow the program considerably. ...