RPCCLIENT

FCrpcclientF[] is a utility initially developed to test MS-RPC functionality in Samba itself. It has undergone several stages of development and stability. Many system administrators have now written scripts around it to manage Windows NT clients from their UNIX workstation.  

OPTIONS

server

NetBIOS name of Server to which to connect. The server can be any SMB/CIFS server. The name is resolved using the m[blue]name resolve orderm[] line from smb.conf(5).

-c|--command='command string'

execute semicolon separated commands (listed below))

-I IP-address

IP address is the address of the server to connect to. It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation.

Normally the client would attempt to locate a named SMB/CIFS server by looking it up via the NetBIOS name resolution mechanism described above in the name resolve order parameter above. Using this parameter will force the client to assume that the server is on the machine with the specified IP address and the NetBIOS name component of the resource being connected to will be ignored.

There is no default for this parameter. If not supplied, it will be determined automatically by the client as described above.

-d|--debuglevel=level

level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0.

The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of information about operations carried out.

Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

Note that specifying this parameter here will override the m[blue]log levelm[] parameter in the FCsmb.confF[] file.

-V

Prints the program version number.

-s <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 FCsmb.confF[] for more information. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time.

-l|--log-basename=logdirectory

Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.

-N

If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal password prompt from the client to the user. This is useful when accessing a service that does not require a password.

Unless a password is specified on the command line or this parameter is specified, the client will request a password.

If a password is specified on the command line and this option is also defined the password on the command line will be silently ingnored and no password will be used.

-k

Try to authenticate with kerberos. Only useful in an Active Directory environment.

-A|--authentication-file=filename

This option allows you to specify a file from which to read the username and password used in the connection. The format of the file is

username = <value>
password = <value>
domain   = <value>

Make certain that the permissions on the file restrict access from unwanted users.

COMMANDS

LSARPC

lsaquery

Query info policy

lookupsids

Resolve a list of SIDs to usernames.

lookupnames

Resolve a list of usernames to SIDs.

enumtrusts

Enumerate trusted domains

enumprivs

Enumerate privileges

getdispname

Get the privilege name

lsaenumsid

Enumerate the LSA SIDS

lsaenumprivsaccount

Enumerate the privileges of an SID

lsaenumacctrights

Enumerate the rights of an SID

lsaenumacctwithright

Enumerate accounts with a right

lsaaddacctrights

Add rights to an account

lsaremoveacctrights

Remove rights from an account

lsalookupprivvalue

Get a privilege value given its name

lsaquerysecobj

Query LSA security object

LSARPC-DS

dsroledominfo

Get Primary Domain Information

DFS

dfsexist

Query DFS support

dfsadd

Add a DFS share

dfsremove

Remove a DFS share

dfsgetinfo

Query DFS share info

dfsenum

Enumerate dfs shares

REG

shutdown

Remote Shutdown

abortshutdown

Abort Shutdown

SRVSVC

srvinfo

Server query info

netshareenum

Enumerate shares

netfileenum

Enumerate open files

netremotetod

Fetch remote time of day

SAMR

queryuser

Query user info

querygroup

Query group info

queryusergroups

Query user groups

querygroupmem

Query group membership

queryaliasmem

Query alias membership

querydispinfo

Query display info

querydominfo

Query domain info

enumdomusers

Enumerate domain users

enumdomgroups

Enumerate domain groups

enumalsgroups

Enumerate alias groups

createdomuser

Create domain user

samlookupnames

Look up names

samlookuprids

Look up names

deletedomuser

Delete domain user

samquerysecobj

Query SAMR security object

getdompwinfo

Retrieve domain password info

lookupdomain

Look up domain

SPOOLSS

adddriver <arch> <config> [<version>]

Execute an AddPrinterDriver() RPC to install the printer driver information on the server. Note that the driver files should already exist in the directory returned by FCgetdriverdirF[]. Possible values for arch are the same as those for the FCgetdriverdirF[] command. The config parameter is defined as follows:

Long Printer Name:\
Driver File Name:\
Data File Name:\
Config File Name:\
Help File Name:\
Language Monitor Name:\
Default Data Type:\
Comma Separated list of Files

Any empty fields should be enter as the string "NULL".

Samba does not need to support the concept of Print Monitors since these only apply to local printers whose driver can make use of a bi-directional link for communication. This field should be "NULL". On a remote NT print server, the Print Monitor for a driver must already be installed prior to adding the driver or else the RPC will fail.

The version parameter lets you specify the printer driver version number. If omitted, the default driver version for the specified architecture will be used. This option can be used to upload Windows 2000 (version 3) printer drivers.

NETLOGON

logonctrl2

Logon Control 2

logonctrl

Logon Control

samsync

Sam Synchronisation

samdeltas

Query Sam Deltas

samlogon

Sam Logon

GENERAL COMMANDS

debuglevel

Set the current debug level used to log information.

help (?)

Print a listing of all known commands or extended help on a particular command.

quit (exit)

Exit FCrpcclient F[].

BUGS

FCrpcclientF[] is designed as a developer testing tool and may not be robust in certain areas (such as command line parsing). It has been known to generate a core dump upon failures when invalid parameters where passed to the interpreter.

From Luke Leighton's original rpcclient man page:

WARNING! The MSRPC over SMB code has been developed from examining Network traces. No documentation is available from the original creators (Microsoft) on how MSRPC over SMB works, or how the individual MSRPC services work. Microsoft's implementation of these services has been demonstrated (and reported) to be... a bit flaky in places.

The development of Samba's implementation is also a bit rough, and as more of the services are understood, it can even result in versions of smbd(8) and rpcclient(1) that are incompatible for some commands or services. Additionally, the developers are sending reports to Microsoft, and problems found or reported to Microsoft are fixed in Service Packs, which may result in incompatibilities.  

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.  

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.

The original rpcclient man page was written by Matthew Geddes, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, and rewritten by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.