can not restart samba

Question

I installed samba sudo apt-get install samba.

then I made configuration but when i write :

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

message appears " command not found "

and when I write ls /etc/init.d I didn't find samba .

solutions tested :

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

sudo /etc/init.d/nmbd restart

sudo service samba restart

and re-install samba

can you hint me please .

note : my os is ubuntu10.4 LTS

Solution 1

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility, e.g. service smbd restart

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) and then start(8) utilities, e.g. stop smbd ; start smbd. The restart(8) utility is also available.

smbd stop/waiting

smbd start/running, process 7831

So the commands to start/stop samba:

sudo stop smbd
sudo start smbd

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For systemd related systems (ie. Ubuntu 16.04):

systemctl start smbd.service
systemctl stop smbd.service

Solution 2

if you have installted samba package. you can find smbd, nmbd in the folder(/etc/init.d)

if not, it mean that your installation failed.

if yes, you can start the service via --

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd start
sudo /etc/init.d/nmbd start

or

sudo service smbd start
sudo service nmbd start

Comments

[Frank Nocke]

as of Ubuntu 16.04 no such thing as /etc/init.d/smbd (and I do have working samba shares... or is it cifs, and hence... ?)

[Rinzwind]

16.04 uses systemd so you need the equivalent for samba using systemctl. Likely systemctl start/stop/restart samba.

[Frank Nocke]

No samba, no smbd to be found. systemctl list-unit-files | grep ... and grepping for sm and sa reveals nothing relevant. (Though samba shares do work for me! Just want to deal with a changed smb.conf)

[Rinzwind]

typo. it is smdb :)

[Frank Nocke]

No luck with nothing :-/ sudo systemctl restart smdb.service - Failed to restart smdb.service: Unit smdb.service not found.

[Rinzwind]

It is the correct command, You need to investigate why it fails. It also should tell you "See 'systemctl status smbd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details" ;-)

[Frank Nocke]

Also after correting smbd to smdb again ;-) I get systemctl status smdb.service | ● smdb.service, Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)| Active: inactive (dead) — I start suspecting, Ubuntu 16 somehow integrated samba services elsewhere. This would also explain, why certain smb.conf changes change nothing, even after reboot don't work as expected, despite the share service itself perfectly working...