How to make changes and not disrupt users..

[eirvine]

Hi Shaun, 

Shaun Lipscombe wrote:
> 
> How do I modify the $LIB/smb.conf without disrupting users when I do a
> killall -HUP smbd; killall -HUP nmbd.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Shaun
 
You do know that smb.conf is also read each time a user logs
in, don't you? In many cases it is not necessary to
restart the daemons after making a change.
 
Eddie.