On Tue, June 12, 2007 3:13 pm, Roger Searle wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 2:17 pm, Reg wrote: >> >> >>>> You can also restart samba using SWAT >>>> >>> How do you do that? >>> >>> >> I do not have SWAT installed but I know that you can restart smbd and >> nmbd >> somewhere. >> >> Is it the "Status" tab? >> >> > I don't have swat installed here either so if you can't find it yourself > by looking around for something that refers to "restarting" "server" or > "samba" then there are the other options. > > /etc/init.d/smb restart (at the command line)
some distros call the service samba or smbd rather than smb. Do this when someone else on the lan is in the middle of a database transaction or editing a document and you may have unhappy users. Rather you could look at man smbd (available via swat) and read: "The configuration file, and any files that it includes, are automatically reloaded every minute, if they change. You can force a reload by sending a SIGHUP to the server. Reloading the configuration file will not affect connections to any service that is already established. Either the user will have to disconnect from the service, or smbd killed and restarted." Also swat has the ability to restart on the "Status" Tab where there are buttons for starting and restarting smbd and/or nmbd and/or both. > > In Yast > System > System Services > scroll down and find "smb", click > disable, acknowledge the dialog box that tells you "Shutting down Samba > SMB daemon", then click enable. > > restart your computer (really, that is such a poor way of doing it, but > will "work") Not necessary at all. -- Nick Rout
