Restarting samba service

dahoule · 04-15-2002, 09:43 PM

I am fairly new to Linux and VERY new to Samba. I've been pretty successful with my latest go-round but I seem to have forgotten a command that I used a while back.

I ran across a command somewhere for restarting Samba services on Redhat 7.2.

It was something like "service -? smb" or something like that.

I've searched this forum and all over the Web, but I can't find this command. Using "samba restart" doesn't seem to work, I just get "command not found".

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

aveng0 · 04-15-2002, 09:46 PM

I dont remember how it was in Redhat, but you can try:
/etc/init.d/samba restart
or /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba restart

thats all i know though

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David

tobymiller · 04-15-2002, 10:34 PM

just in case you haven't figured it out from aveng0's suggestion yet:

su to root
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

Toby

dahoule · 04-16-2002, 06:37 AM

When I try either of these, I get "command not found"!

It's making me nuts! That's why I was asking for that other command that had "service" in it. That's the only one that I got to work previously. Unfortunately, I didn't write the command down!

I will have time on Thursday to really play around with with this, so maybe I can come up with the right command then.

thanks,

saavik · 04-16-2002, 07:36 AM

just type:

/etc/init.d/smb restart

or the other thing but,
do not forget the `/`
at the beginning,
and trie to do the most of the typing with the tab-key!

hanzerik · 04-16-2002, 07:51 AM

smbd not smb

DMR · 04-16-2002, 04:50 PM

For Redhat, it should be:
/sbin/service smb restart

Quote:

Originally posted by hanzerik
smbd not smb

In that case, don't forget nmbd too.

hanzerik · 04-16-2002, 05:36 PM

I'm not sure, but I beleave in redhat that if you restart smbd it will also restart nmbd automatically. I use samba on slackware using inetd to start it so i'm not sure

gkiran.ch · 02-15-2010, 01:16 PM

/sbin/service smb restart should work.

Kiran

jschiwal · 02-16-2010, 06:51 PM

gkiran.ch: Please don't resurrect 8 year old posts. Thank you.

gkiran.ch · 05-06-2010, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

gkiran.ch: Please don't resurrect 8 year old posts. Thank you.

Hey Thanks but the post may be 8 yrs old but i thought if i would post my method then it will be useful to someone who will be searching for it on web.

IanWood · 06-29-2012, 03:41 PM

I did find it useful, thanks for resurrecting it.

hamidi2 · 08-28-2012, 12:53 AM

the best is to:
restart smbd
of course, after granting root access.

rizq · 12-11-2012, 11:17 AM

Try
Service samba start
ofcourse at root