How do I restart the Samba service?

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I have changed the config file, but changes are not appearing. Do I have to restart Samba?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 06:12

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sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart should be all you need to do.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 06:12

quack quixote

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sudo service samba restart `sudo service samba restart`. Looks like windows :)) – kolypto Dec 09 '09 at 07:16

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 16:14

It looks like ubuntu has changed the name of the service you need to restart to smbd. For me (on ubuntu server 12.04) the correct command was

sudo service smbd restart

Editor's notes: I can't comment, or this would be a comment to the above answer. I realize this is an old question, but I landed here looking for the very same thing, and the comment was enough of a hint to me to figure out the rest, so I thought I'd record the update.

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 21 '13 at 17:19

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In a production environment it's not advisable to restart a service for just configuration changes. I suggest you go with:

sudo service smbd reload

Whats the advantage of reload?

Reload will just update the configuration changes, with out restarting the service.

edited Jan 21 '13 at 17:19

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answered Oct 19 '12 at 08:58

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 27 '21 at 19:06

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In the latest version in 2021, the following will work perfectly:

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

Please see that the only difference is in the pid file name.

answered Mar 27 '21 at 19:06

Tomasz Grzybowski

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How do I restart the Samba service?

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