[Samba] Regarding Samba shares

[., Srikanth N S]

Thanks Rowland.

Regards,
Srikanth NS

From: samba <samba-bounces at lists.samba.org> on behalf of Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2025 at 9:38 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org <samba at lists.samba.org>
Cc: Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org>
Subject: Re: [Samba] Regarding Samba shares
On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 15:03:16 +0000
"., Srikanth N S via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Even if we remove the Samba share and reload config, Samba Client
> (Windows client) continue to have access to the Share until the Samba
> client is unmounted or Samba service is restarted. Is this expected
> behavior?

Yes

Reloading the config has no effect on already established connections,
to break these you need to either:

Stop Samba on the server.

Disconnect the client

Or as Arnaud has already pointed out, run 'smbcontrol close-share smbd'.

Please read 'man smbcontrol' for further information.

Rowland

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