[Samba] hosts allow option is not applaying without restart smbd

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:54:06 +0200
john doe via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Bottom posting
> 
> On 6/21/2018 9:38 AM, adam_xu--- via samba wrote:
> > Hi, Rowland, I have the same issue too. I can't find any useful
> > info after I ran 'man smbcontrol',  could you give us a clearer
> > answer. Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yours Adam
> >   
> > From: Rowland Penny via samba
> > Date: 2018-06-20 17:40
> > To: samba
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] hosts allow option is not applaying without
> > restart smbd On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:22:36 +0700
> > Vladimir Eltsov via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I have a lot of servers with CentOS 7 and samba 4 (classic domain
> >> controllers), differnt versions (4.4.4, 4.6.2...).
> >>
> >> I have found that changes hosts allow option are not applaying
> >> without restart smbd.
> >>
> >> I have tried:
> >> systemctl reload smbd.service
> >> killall -1 smbd
> >> pkill -HUP smbd
> >> smbcontrol smbd reload-config
> >>
> >> but client I have added does not have access.
> >>
> >> I see strange messages in system log:
> >>
> >> Jun 20 15:50:20 nvkzsrv smbd[29943]: [2018/06/20 15:50:20.705223,
> >> 0] ../source3/lib/access.c:338(allow_access)
> >> Jun 20 15:50:20 nvkzsrv smbd[29943]:  Denied connection from
> >> 192.168.36.36 (192.168.36.36)
> >>
> >> Where 192.168.36.36 is an address I have added in hosts allow.
> >>
> >> Changes are applaying when I restart smbd, but I can not do it
> >> while there are a lot of opened files on servers.
> >>
> >> Can someone explain me what does it mean?
> >>
> >> How can I applay changes without restart smbd?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >   
> > run 'man smbcontrol'
> >   
> > Rowland
> >   
> > 
> 
> My guess would be:
> 
> From:
> 
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbcontrol.1.html
> 
> "reload-config
> Force daemon to reload smb.conf configuration file. Can be sent to
> smbd, nmbd, or winbindd."
> 

I guess when 'man smbcontrol' was run, there was no output, probably
because the Samba docs packages aren't installed ??

So, yes the above is correct.

Rowland