[Samba] differences between restart and reload
Michael Gasch
gasch at eva.mpg.de
Mon Jan 16 19:18:51 GMT 2006
if you really want to kill all connected clients and force them to
reread the smb.conf you should use restart
i always try to avoid restart in a productive env because some apps my
fail or open files may got lost
greez
Fabio wrote:
> Hi!
> I read in samba howto that "samba restart" command restarts both daemons nmbd
> and smbd while "samba reload" command force smbd to read smb.conf.
>
> question: when is important restart samba daemons after changed smb.conf? in
> case of changed of global section?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Fabio
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