GENTEST

Section: Test Suite (1)
Updated: 01/11/2019
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NAME

gentest - Run random generic SMB operations against two SMB servers and show the differences in behavior

SYNOPSIS

gentest {//server1/share1} {//server2/share2} {-U user%pass} {-U user%pass} [-s seed] [-o numops] [-a] [-A] [-i FILE] [-O] [-S FILE] [-L] [-F] [-C] [-X]

DESCRIPTION

gentest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between SMB servers. It will run a random set of generic operations against //server1/share1 and then the same random set against //server2/share2 and display the differences in the responses it gets.

This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.

OPTIONS

-U user%pass

: Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter is mandatory and has to be specified twice.

-s seed

: Seed the random number generator with the specified value.

-o numops

: Set the number of operations to perform.

-a

: Print the operations that are performed.

-A

: Backtrack to find minimal number of operations required to make the response to a certain call differ.

-i FILE

: Specify a file containing the names of fields that have to be ignored (such as time fields). See below for a description of the file format.

-O

: Enable oplocks.

-S FILE

: Set preset seeds file. The default is gentest_seeds.dat.

-L

: Use preset seeds

-F

: Fast reconnect (just close files)

-C

: Continuous analysis mode

-X

: Analyse even when the test succeeded.

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

This utility is part of the m[blue]Sambam[][1] suite, which is developed by the global m[blue]Samba Teamm[][2].

gentest was written by Andrew Tridgell.

This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

1.

Samba

: http://www.samba.org/

2.

Samba Team

: http://www.samba.org/samba/team/