On 23 Jun 2005, at 13:13, Geoff Scott wrote:
# smbd -V
I see this:
Version 3.0.14a-Debian
but my window titles are showing the old 3.0.7 version. Humph
Weird........
Did you restart the Windows machine in the meantime? I've had
continuing problems with Windows (post Windows 98) machines that like
to keep connections open - I don't know why.
Stop the samba service and check smbstatus - you'll find one or two
connections still open. Turn off your PC and you should see the
connection has disappeared (smbstatus will be at least one process
smaller). Then start the Samba service and see what happens. From the
screenshot, it appears that you're composing the email at the same
time that you're changing the server config - which means that your
operating system certainly hasn't released that connection.
One of the Samba team can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the
impression that once a connection is opened, the smbd process serving
that connection will continue to use the parameters that it read when
it started. Other smbd processes will read the config file as they're
started, meaning everyone else will see different "server" and
"comment" strings if your operating system doesn't close the connection.
You might also find that the startup scripts are dealing with a
different set of binaries, or at least using /etc/smb.conf vs /etc/
samba/smb.conf. It's worth checking out, especially if you're doing a
cross-distribution upgrade. As an aside, this is one reason I prefer
to reinstall rather than upgrade when it comes to changing
distributions.
HTH
Alex
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