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SMBINFO(1)               General Commands Manual               SMBINFO(1)

NAME         top

       smbinfo - Userspace helper to display SMB-specific file
       information for the Linux SMB client file system (CIFS)

SYNOPSIS         top

          smbinfo [-v] [-h] [-V] {command} {file system object}

DESCRIPTION         top

       This tool is part of the cifs-utils suite.

       smbinfo is a userspace helper program for the Linux SMB client
       file system (CIFS). It is intended to display SMB-specific file
       informations such as Security Descriptors and Quota.

       This tool works by making an CIFS_QUERY_INFO IOCTL call to the
       Linux SMB client which in turn issues a SMB Query Info request and
       returns the result. This differs from getcifsacl which uses
       extended file attributes.

OPTIONS         top

       -v     Print version number and exit.

       -V     Verbose output.

       -h     Print help explaining the command line options.

COMMAND         top

       fileaccessinfo: Prints the FileAccessInformation class

       filealigninfo: Prints the FileAlignmentInformation class

       fileallinfo: Prints the FileAllInformation class

       filebasicinfo: Prints the FileBasicInformation class

       fileeainfo: Prints the FileEaInformation class

       filefsfullsizeinfo: Prints the FileFsFullSizeInformation class

       fileinternalinfo: Prints the FileInternalInformation class

       filemodeinfo: Prints the FileModeInformation class

       filepositioninfo: Prints the FilePositionInformation class

       filestandardinfo: Prints the FileStandardInformation class

       filestreaminfo: Prints the FileStreamInformation class

       fsctl-getobjid: Prints the ObjectID

       getcompression: Prints the compression setting for the file.

       setcompression -c <no|default|lznt1>: Sets the compression setting
       for the file.

       list-snapshots: Lists the previous versions of the volume that
       backs this file

       quota: Print the quota for the volume in the form - SID Length -
       Change Time - Quota Used - Quota Threshold - Quota Limit - SID

       secdesc: Print the security descriptor in the form - Revision -
       Control - Owner SID - Group SID - ACL - File types - File flags

       keys: Dump session id, encryption keys and decryption keys so that
       the SMB3 traffic of this mount can be decryped e.g. via wireshark
       (requires root).

       gettconinfo: Prints both the TCON Id and Session Id for a cifs
       file.

NOTES         top

       Kernel support for smbinfo utilities requires the CIFS_QUERY_INFO
       IOCTL which was initially introduced in the 4.20 kernel and is
       only implemented for mount points using SMB2 or above (see
       mount.cifs(8) vers option).

SEE ALSO         top

       mount.cifs(8), getcifsacl(1)

AUTHOR         top

       Ronnie Sahlberg wrote the smbinfo program.

       The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask
       questions regarding these programs.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the LinuxCIFS utils (network filesystem
       mounts from Linux (e.g. to Samba, ksmbd, etc.)) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, send it to
       linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org.  This
       page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
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