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 > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you > Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a > http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
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....
