Issues with SAMBA starting, stopping and restarting on CentOS 7.0

Question

I’ve installed SAMBA on CentOS 7.0 (recently updated) using yum install, and when trying start, restart or stop system returns following type of message:

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop smb.service

After I issued the commands I’ve found here:

/sbin/service smb stop

When I grep smbd from ps output there are two lines with smbd and they do not change after issuing stop or restart. So I suppose there is something wrong. I’ve reinstalled SAMBA package but result is the same. What is wrong?

Solution

You can try issuing those same commands outlined on to page you linked to using sudo like this;

sudo /sbin/service smb start

sudo /sbin/service smb stop

sudo /sbin/service smb restart

But the /sbin/service path seems to literal to me and my understanding of how system services work so I would recommend using the far more common—and simpler—way to call service like this:

sudo service smb start

sudo service smb stop

sudo service smb restart

Or perhaps run it via systemctl like this:

sudo systemctl start smb.service

sudo systemctl stop smb.service

sudo systemctl restart smb.service

Comments

[user3376246]

Only issuing systemctl option did work. All others didn't.