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=How to restart the Samba server===
''Note: This page is somewhat out of date, though mostly still not wrong.''

If you have [[Fedora Core]], there's a convenient little "services" application you can use to restart Samba and several dozen other services. For the rest of us, however, there's a command you have to execute from a root terminal.

On [[Ubuntu]], and probably other [[Debian]]-based systems:
[[sudo]] restart smbd
Prior to Ubuntu 10.04 or so (maybe 9?), this was:
[[sudo]] /etc/init.d/samba restart
On [[SuSE]] 10.0 and [[Fedora Core]] 4:
[[sudo]] /etc/init.d/smb restart

This will ask for a password; type in your password (not root's) unless you have reconfigured your sudo setup. (This assumes you have sudo privileges; if not, [[su]] to get root access and then type the rest of the command without the "sudo".)

On [[Red Hat Linux|Red Hat]], I'm told the command would be:
/sbin/samba restart

(Possibly substituting "smb" for "samba"; ls the directory in question to find a list of services.) This is the same general technique used for restarting services, which should itself probably be documented somewhere. (The Samba share configuration GUI program really ought to have a "restart Samba server" button, though, even if it does this automatically when you change parameters -- because there is no way to know if it is doing this otherwise.)

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