On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:49:46 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 > There's a reload option to most /etc/init.d/samba scripts which does just that...
