Stopping and re-starting Samba

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian Conway)]

> Is there a method to stop samba and restart it - like you can with
> httpd?
>
> If so, what is the syntax.

That would depend on where you have samba started from.  If you start it
from inetd.conf, you can just kill -1 inetd_process#.  If you start it up as
its own daemon (standard redhat installation), you can use the init script
in /etc/rc.d/init that responds to start, stop, restart, reload.

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net



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