Re: Samba: When does smb.conf get read?
Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Samba: When does smb.conf get read?"
> > Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I can't find the
> > answer in any of the docs/web sites.
> >
> > I've installed Samba, and left the workgroup=workgroup. Accordingly,
> > when I started browsing for my Debian box via Windows' Network
> > Neighboorhood, I found it in the "Workgroup" workgroup. Wanting to
> > change that, I found in the docs that I simply needed to change the
> > "workgroup=" line to whatever workgroup I wanted to be in.
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Surely I don't need to reboot?! Surely I'm just missing something basic?
> > So my two questions are:
>
> Reboots are only necessary for kernel upgrades. There other isolated
> incidents but they are special cases.
>
> >
> > 1) Whenever I make a change to /etc/samba/smb.conf, what do I have to do
> > to make the change active? In other words, what does it take to get the
> > system to reread smb.conf?
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Actually, one more question: where in the documentation might I have
> > found these answers?
> >
>
> man smbd
>
> SIGNALS
> Sending the smbd a SIGHUP will cause it to re-load its
> smb.conf configuration file within a short period of time.
>
> i.e.
>
> kill -HUP `pidof smbd`
>
> Brian Servis
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Thank you. I'm now in the correct workgroup, and I now know where to find the info on
this issue. Reckon I didn't scour the man page hard enough....
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