Samba Pocket Reference

Samba Startup File

The most common way to start Samba is to run it from your Unix system’s rc files at boot time. For systems with a System V-like set of /etc/rcN.d directories, you can do this by placing a suitably-named script in the rc directory. Usually, the script starting Samba is called S91samba, while the script stopping or “killing” Samba is called K91samba. On Linux, the usual subdirectory for the scripts is /etc/rc2.d. On Solaris, the directory is /etc/rc3.d. For machines with /etc/rc.local files, you would normally add the following lines to that file:

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D

The following example script supports two extra commands, status and restart, in addition to the normal start and stop for System V machines:

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc2.d./S91Samba  --manage the SMB server in a  
# System V manner
#
OPTS="-D"
#DEBUG=-d3
PS="ps  ax"
SAMBA_DIR=/usr/local/samba
case "$1" in
'start')
	echo "samba "
	$SAMBA_DIR/bin/smbd $OPTS $DEBUG
	$SAMBA_DIR/bin/nmbd $OPTS $DEBUG
	;;
'stop')
	echo "Stopping samba"
	$PS | awk '/usr.local.samba.bin/ { print $1}' |\
	xargs kill
	;;
'status')
	x=`$PS | grep -v grep | grep '$SAMBA_DIR/bin'`
	if [ ! "$x" ]; then
		echo "No samba processes running"
	else
		echo "  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND"
		echo "$x"
	fi
	;;
'restart')
	/etc/rc2.d/S91samba stop
	/etc/rc2.d/S91samba start
	/etc/rc2.d/S91samba status
	;;
*)
	echo "$0: Usage error -- you must say $0 start, \
   stop, status or restart ."
	;;
esac
exit

You’ll need to set the actual paths and