[Samba] differences between restart and reload

[Michael Gasch]

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