samba - Sep 2015 - Please Help!!! smbcontrol close-share

Hello to everybody in the list.

I want to close a samba share using a command that can be executed when 
i need it or scheduled with at/cron.
I found that 'smbcontrol close-share' command  supposed to do that, but 
when i try to run command it doesn't work.

         sudo smbcontrol smbd close-share My_Share

It returns the following:

             Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"
            WARNING: [printers] service MUST be printable!
            Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"

I don't know how to make this command to work.

My server is Ubuntu 12.04LTS running Samba Version 3.6.3

Please, i really appreciate any help how to run this command.

Sincerely,

Carlos

Hello Carlos,

Am 08.09.2015 um 17:42 schrieb Carlos R.P.Evertsz:
> I found that 'smbcontrol close-share' command  supposed to do that,
but
> when i try to run command it doesn't work.
> 
>         sudo smbcontrol smbd close-share My_Share
Have you read the manpage of smbcontrol? "close-share" just closes all
connections to a share, without affecting other client connections. It
doesn't remove a share.


> It returns the following:
> 
>             Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"
>            WARNING: [printers] service MUST be printable!
>            Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"
This doesn't mean that this command failed. It just tells you, what's
wrong with your smb.conf. See "testparm".



> I want to close a samba share using a command that can be executed
> when i need it or scheduled with at/cron.
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-September/164268.html


Regards,
Marc

Hi Marc,

Thank you for your email.

I think something is wrong with the command or syntax. For example, I 
open the share folder in a Win workstation(\\server\My_Share) and then 
run the program to close
that share in the server console. The workstation continues to have 
normal access to that share. Nothing change.

  I think If the command were running correctly the workstation would 
not be able to access the share.

Is there other way to do this? I can try.

Carlos


On Sep/08/2015 12:08 PM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello Carlos,
>
> Am 08.09.2015 um 17:42 schrieb Carlos R.P.Evertsz:
>> I found that 'smbcontrol close-share' command  supposed to do
that, but
>> when i try to run command it doesn't work.
>>
>>          sudo smbcontrol smbd close-share My_Share
> Have you read the manpage of smbcontrol? "close-share" just
closes all
> connections to a share, without affecting other client connections. It
> doesn't remove a share.
>
>
>
>> It returns the following:
>>
>>              Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"
>>             WARNING: [printers] service MUST be printable!
>>             Ignoring unknown parameter "use client drivers"
> This doesn't mean that this command failed. It just tells you,
what's
> wrong with your smb.conf. See "testparm".
>
>
>
>
>> I want to close a samba share using a command that can be executed
>> when i need it or scheduled with at/cron.
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-September/164268.html
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>