I can attest to that. Restarting samba will terminate all connections to the server and they will reconnect BUT you will lose data on any files that are open. I found that out the hard way when I thought everybody was off the server and restarted samba. The files were a total loss meaning they had to restart from scratch. Luckily it wasn't anything important like a database.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Smith Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] What's the best method - probably simple On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:44, Jim Shaffer wrote: > this might be the blind leading the blind, but I think "restarting" samba > will simply cause it to reread the smb.conf. It will not disconnect the > users. I think the smb.conf is re-read every 30 seconds or so, nothing needs to be done. From my experience restarting Samba will disconnect the users (really how could it be otherwise?), although most will silently reconnect when the server comes back online. Those with active operations, especially open database files (such as MSACCESS) will have a great propensity toward damage generally resluting in repair procedures to be undertaken. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba