AFAIK, Samba will notice a change on its own as well. ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, ww m-pubsyssamba wrote: > Everytime I add or remove some samba shares, I must restart smb service to take > effect. Is there anyway to reconfig it without restart? > > > >> Yes there is, you must "kill -HUP" your parent smbd process, either work out > >> which pid it is from running ps -aef (-aux or whatever > for your UNIX platform) or cat /sambainstalldir/var/locks/smbd.pid file which > contains the PID, then "kill -HUP YourPID" > For already established client connections they may not see the changes until they > disconnect but for new connections your > smb.conf/share changes will be visable, > > cheers Andy. > > << > > BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views > which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically > stated. > If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, > copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in > reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors > e-mails sent or received. > Further communication will signify your consent to this. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba