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user784637
Asked: 2011-11-14 23:45:39 +0800 CST

How to restart samba server?

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Sorry this is a little embarassing but I'm trying to set up my own server for the first time. I found great tutorial online.

http://www.intac.net/build-your-own-server/

I'm stuck at the 2nd to last line of step 4. Apparently there is no samba directory in init.d.

Why isn't there a samba directory in init.d?

Would the following work?

# sudo restart smbd
# sudo restart nmdb
samba

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Start

    sudo service smbd start

    Stop

    sudo service smbd stop

    Restart

    sudo service smbd restart
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  2. Starting with 15.04 and systemd, the command is systemctl restart smbd

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  3. You can also do this way:

    Start

    sudo /etc/init.d/smbd start

    Stop

    sudo /etc/init.d/smbd stop

    Restart

    sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

    If you got an error, try using these commends this nmbd instead.

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  4. you may also try this :

    check the name of the service: 

    service --status-all

    restart the service 

    sudo service samba restart
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  5. On RHEL you start smb and nmb:

    systemctl start smb
systemctl start nmb

    Next, check if they started:

    ps -elf | grep smbd
ps -elf | grep nmbd
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