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ok, thanks. wish there was a way to get it to pick up the new one without stopping and starting the whole thing since i have other people connected to other shares.
ok, thanks. wish there was a way to get it to pick up the new one without stopping and starting the whole thing since i have other people connected to other shares.
I don't think it'll drop the connected users off by doing a reload. A restart would, but I don't think the reload will effect anything.
You could just try it, and listen for the wails of your users, though.
OK, I must have read it wrong, I thought the sentences above the commands went with the commands below them in that example they showed.
Save & exit the file
Ctrl o
Ctrl x
then expand the template
expand-template /etc/smb.conf
then restart the samba server so your template is active. Note that this will momentarily stop samba, so ensure that all users have disconnected from & stopped using all shares first
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