samba - Apr 2004 - Can I reconfigure Samba share without restart smb service?

Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to
take effect.
Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart?

Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to take
effect. Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart?

>> Yes there is, you must "kill -HUP" your parent smbd process,
either work out which pid it is from running ps -aef (-aux or whatever
for your UNIX platform) or cat /sambainstalldir/var/locks/smbd.pid file which
contains the PID, then "kill -HUP YourPID"
For already established client connections they may not see the changes until
they disconnect but for new connections your
smb.conf/share changes will be visable,

cheers Andy.

<<

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maorui wrote:
>Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to
>take effect.
>Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart?
>
>
>
>  
>
just reload it
/etc/init.d/samba reload

At least you don't have to reboot the system

Matthew J. DiBattista
Information Technology Technicians



-----Original Message-----
From: maorui [mailto:maorui@exavio.com.cn] 
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 5:47 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Can I reconfigure Samba share without restart smb service?

Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to
take effect.
Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart?

AFAIK, Samba will notice a change on its own as well.

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, ww m-pubsyssamba wrote:
> Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to
take effect. Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart?
>
>
> >> Yes there is, you must "kill -HUP" your parent smbd
process, either work out which pid it is from running ps -aef (-aux or whatever
> for your UNIX platform) or cat /sambainstalldir/var/locks/smbd.pid file
which contains the PID, then "kill -HUP YourPID"
> For already established client connections they may not see the changes
until they disconnect but for new connections your
> smb.conf/share changes will be visable,
>
> cheers Andy.
>
> <<
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I read somewhere that Samba re-reads its config file every minute or so.  I
think one of my servers (2.2.0a) does this but the other (2.2.8a) seems to
take longer.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Novosielski" <novosirj@umdnj.edu>
To: "ww m-pubsyssamba" <pubsyssamba@bbc.co.uk>
Cc: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Can I reconfigure Samba share without restart smb
service?

> AFAIK, Samba will notice a change on its own as well.
>
> ---- _  _ _  _ ___  _  _  _
> |Y#| |  | |\/| |  \ |\ |  |  | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin
> |$&| |__| |  | |__/ | \| _|  | novosirj@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922
(2-0922)
> \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, ww m-pubsyssamba wrote:
>
> > Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb
service
to take effect. Is there anyway to reconfig it without
restart?
> >
> >
> > >> Yes there is, you must "kill -HUP" your parent smbd
process, either
work out which pid it is from running ps -aef (-aux or
whatever
> > for your UNIX platform) or cat /sambainstalldir/var/locks/smbd.pid
file
which contains the PID, then "kill -HUP
YourPID"
> > For already established client connections they may not see the
changes
until they disconnect but for new connections your
> > smb.conf/share changes will be visable,
> >
> > cheers Andy.
> >
> > <<
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