GENTEST(1)

✨ GENTEST(1) ✨

aka gentest — the girlies in the Test Suite section of your manual 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gentest — run a whole bunch of random generic SMB operations against two SMB servers and then spill the tea on how their behaviour differs 👀✨

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🦋 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]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so bestie, gentest is literally a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between SMB servers. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

It will run a random set of generic operations against //server1/share1, and then it runs the same random set against //server2/share2, and then it displays the differences in the responses it gets. Like a side-by-side, but for server behaviour. Iconic. 🔥

This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers. So yeah, it's giving professional detective energy. 🕵️♀️✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -U user%pass — tell it the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter is mandatory and has to be specified twice. Not once. Twice. Periodt. 😤
• -s seed — seed the random number generator with the specified value. Same seed, same chaos. 🌱
• -o numops — set the number of operations to perform. More ops, more drama. 💀
• -a — print the operations that are performed. Narrator mode, on. 🗣️
• -A — backtrack to find the minimal number of operations required to make the response to a certain call differ. Detective work, but make it efficient. 🔍
• -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 the preset seeds file. The default is gentest_seeds.dat. 📁
• -L — use preset seeds. 🌾
• -F — fast reconnect (just close files). Zoom zoom. ⚡
• -C — continuous analysis mode. Never not analysing. 🔁
• -X — analyse even when the test succeeded. Yes bestie, even when it ate. 💯

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. No cap. ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Samba

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].

gentest was written by Andrew Tridgell.

This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

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🧚 NOTES 🧚

1. Samba http://www.samba.org/
2. Samba Team http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 This one comes to you from Samba 4.0, dated 09/09/2026 — go forth and diff those servers, bestie 🦋💖