Updating smb.conf without restarting samba

[Roeland M.J. Meyer]

At 10:22 PM 8/29/97 +1000, Nick Parker wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get samba to re-read smb.conf while
>it's running. At the moment everytime I make changes in smb.conf I kil all
>samba processes and re-run samba. Is there a better way?

I don't know what version you're running but, if I'm only making changes to
"shares" then it does re-read after I've updated the smb.conf file. I
believe that it checks smb.conf on each browse request, but I'm not sure.
In any case, I usually do not have to re-boot Samba in order to propogate
the updates, unlike adding Virtual Hosts to Apache (<sigh>, guess what
*i've* been workin' with ...).
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