Name

smbd

Synopsis

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

The configuration file is automatically reevaluated every minute. If it has changed, most new options are immediately effective. You can force Samba to reload the configuration file immediately by sending a SIGHUP signal to smbd. Reloading the configuration file does not affect any clients that are already connected. To escape this condition, 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 an smbd process, send it the termination signal SIGTERM (15), which allows it to die gracefully, instead of a SIGKILL (9). With Samba versions prior to 2.2, the debugging level could be raised or lowered using SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2. This is no longer supported. Use smbcontrol instead.

Command synopsis

smbd [options]

Options

-a

Causes each new connection to the Samba server to append all logging messages to the log file. This option is the opposite of -o and is the default.

-D

Runs the smbd program as a daemon. This is the recommended way to use smbd. It is also the default action when smbd is run from an interactive command line. In addition, smbd can be run from inetd.

-d debug_level

Sets the debug (sometimes called logging) level. The ...

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