[KLUG Members] Continuing the Samba dance - Part 3 Sharing files

[Mark Jones]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:58 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > >What setting did I miss?  How do I tell Samba to let WinXP write to the
> > > >directory.
> > > writeable = yes
> > Thank you.   Now...
> > My "Using Samba" book says that I also have to restart any samba and
> > clients to reload the conf file.
> 
> Not true,  the daemon checks the configuration file about every 60
> seconds.

It also says that but I was trying to force the restart without waiting.
My impatience....
> 
> > I used /etc/init.d/samba restart.  That appeared to work.
> > However, the windows machines no longer see the server. I've tried
> > disconnecting the drive; logoff/logon; and rebooting but I still can't
> > get the connection to my server.
> 
> Is smbd and nmbd running on the server?
yes they are...
majones at charm:~$ ps -aux | grep mbd
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
majones  16650  0.0  0.6   6672  1724 ?        S    15:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
root     16702  0.0  1.0   8932  2632 ?        Ss   15:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root     16706  0.0  1.0   8932  2620 ?        S    15:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D


TIA,
Mark