samba - Nov 1998 - How to stop access to a share in the samba server?

Hi

I am mouving from  PC-NFS to SAMBA and thare are some thinks that I would
like to see in SAMBA.
In NFS, when I do not want a share to be accessible, I just use the
command: unshare /shared/directory

This make the /shared/directory imediataly not accessible. Even by some one
already using it!

I?m using SAMBA 1.9.18p10 in a SUN Solaris 2.5  and i try to change
smb.comf to disable one share, say: /samba/shared/directory but the clients
tha have it mounted in theyer PC?s still having access to
/samba/shared/directory .

Is there any away to stop access to a mounted SAMBA driver?

Thank You 

Roberto
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At 12:47 26/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> Is there any away to stop access to a mounted SAMBA driver?
>Have You tried to kill the corresponding smbd-processes? This should 
>disconnect the Users and when they reconnect, the share shouldn't be 
>accessible anymore.
> 
Thank You to respond, and let me abouse you a litle more ...

Yes, I know this will work but I have 86 Pcs mount 5 shares eache!

I could be able to stop just one share and leave the others OK! So I must
kill all the smbd-processes and let the user reconect again? Could the
users loose same data with this aproach?

Thank You

Roberto 


>> Thank You 
>Hope this helps,
>
>Osama Abu-Aish
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>Inst. f. Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS)
>Allmandring 30a
>70569 Stuttgart
>Germany
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Eng. Roberto Jo?o Lopes Garcia         E-mail: roberto@mha.com.br
F. 55 11 848 9906   FAX  55 11 848 9955

MHA Engenharia Ltda
E-mail: mha@mha.com.br    WWW: http://www.mha.com.br

Av Maria Coelho Aguiar, 215 Bloco D     2 Andar
Centro Empresarial de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo - BRASIL - 05805 000
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Roberto Joao Lopes Garcia wrote:
> 
> At 12:47 26/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >> Is there any away to stop access to a mounted SAMBA driver?
> >Have You tried to kill the corresponding smbd-processes? This should
> >disconnect the Users and when they reconnect, the share shouldn't
be
> >accessible anymore.
> >
> Thank You to respond, and let me abouse you a litle more ...
> 
> Yes, I know this will work but I have 86 Pcs mount 5 shares eache!
> 
> I could be able to stop just one share and leave the others OK! So I
must
> kill all the smbd-processes and let the user reconect again? Could the
> users loose same data with this aproach?
> 
one tip I use here, so I don't have to kill and restart SAMBA, is :
the directories where the share points are only symlinks to a true
directory contening the data....
When I want to stop the users to access the share, I simply change the
symlink to point to a directory containing only a file telling that share
is temporaly offline....
And  when I want to give them access to the directory again, I change the
symlink to point to the true directory....

Of course I made 2 little sh scripts to change the symlinks that I name
[share].in and [share].out....

This is only a trick, but I think that it would be cool to have a similar
functionnality in Samba : opening and closing shares without having to
restart or why not reload configuration without having to restart the
process.... 


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