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Using Samba
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Using Samba

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix D. Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands

This appendix is a reference listing of command-line options and other information to help you use the executables that come with Samba distribution.

Samba Distribution Programs

The following sections provide information about the command-line parameters for Samba programs.

smbd

The smbd program provides Samba’s file and printer services, using one TCP/IP stream and one daemon per client. It is controlled from the default configuration file, samba_dir /lib/smb.conf, and can be overridden by command-line options.

The configuration file is automatically re-evaluated every minute. If it has changed, most new options are immediately effective. You can force Samba to immediately reload the configuration file if you send a SIGHUP to smbd. Reloading the configuration file, however, will not affect any clients that are already connected. To escape this “grandfather” configuration, a client would need to disconnect and reconnect, or the server itself would have to be restarted, forcing all clients to reconnect.

Other signals

To shut down a smbd process, send it the termination signal SIGTERM (-15) which allows it to die gracefully instead of a SIGKILL (-9). To increment the debug logging level of smbd at runtime, send the program a SIGUSR1 signal. To decrement it at runtime, send the program a SIGUSR2 signal.

Command-line options

-D

The smbd program is run as a daemon. This is the recommended way to use smbd (it is also the default action). In ...

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