samba - Jun 2025 - Regarding Samba Shares

Hi,

This is regarding Samba shares. We have the following queries


  1.  Even if we remove the Samba share and reload config, Samba Client (Windows
client) continue to have access to the Share until the Samba client is unmounted
or Samba service is restarted. Is this expected behavior?
  2.  Is there a way to evict Samba clients connected to Samba share or
associated to a particular User?

Regards,
Srikanth NS

Hi
Le 04/06/2025 ? 11:54, ., Srikanth N S via samba a
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> Hi,
>
> This is regarding Samba shares. We have the following queries
>
>
>    1.  Even if we remove the Samba share and reload config, Samba Client
(Windows client) continue to have access to the Share until the Samba client is
unmounted or Samba service is restarted. Is this expected behavior?
>    2.  Is there a way to evict Samba clients connected to Samba share or
associated to a particular User?
you could try "smbcontrol close-share" command (see man smbcontrol)


 ????? close-share
 ?????????? Order smbd to close the client connections to the named 
share. Note that this doesn't affect client connections to any other 
shares. This
 ?????????? message-type takes an argument of the share name for which 
client connections will be closed, or the "*" character which will
close
all currently
 ?????????? open shares. This may be useful if you made changes to the 
access controls on the share. This message can only be sent to smbd.


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