WHY? Stopping and re-starting Samba - The answer

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

Hello,
	I don't ussually don't mount my MS filesystems under linux, I
wanted to start with that if I was way off.  If your NT box has crashed
and you have a mounted filesytem - can't you just umount that directory?
If it says things are in use would an fuser -k /mntpoint work?  The
filesystem is not there so it doesn't matter that something may be using
it (fuser -k kills all tasks using something in that directory).  Then
can't you just remount the filesystem via samba when NT is fixed (well NT
will never really be fixed :-)).  If I have a grasp on your problem, I
think that would work - I could be missing something.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:

> Valid question Anthony -
> 
> The NT box mounted by my machine crashed, so now I can neither re-mount
> or unmount the drive :(
> 
> Is there another way to accomplish the re-mount?
> 
> Phil
> 
> "Anthony J. Gabrielson" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> >         How do you load Samba?  If you do it with inetd its init 1, if you
> > load it as a deamon the its in either /etc/rc2.d/ or /etc/rc3.d/  Which
> > ever file starts it stop then same file start.  Why do you want to restart
> > it though?  If I understand samba then anything modified in smb.conf
> > should almost take effect immediatly.  The only reason I can think of is
> > an upgrade.
> > 
> > Hope thats a help,
> > Anthony
> > 
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a method to stop samba and restart it - like you can with
> > > httpd?
> > >
> > > If so, what is the syntax.
> > >
> > > Phil
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