How do you restart Samba on OSX 10.6.7? I've looked everywhere can't find any docs.
Reason for asking is that on occasion Samba just hangs and I have to forcibly restart the mac to fix it. (restart command just hangs the mac). It seems to have something to do with open connections to Win7 clients and sleep mode.
Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Same problem, same solution to reconnect on my Qnap.
Some interesting point in this case I can lost also my AFP connections.
Unfortunatly, I'm using in love OS X from the 10.0 version but it's still always this kind of networks issues and it really ***** 😟
Some users have reported the crazy SMB sharing with Windows in 10.6.x can be solved if you go to Finder's Preferences and in the Sidebar pane uncheck the box for 'Connected servers'. This really helps things along and all you have to do know if use the Go-Connect to Server (command button +k) to connect to known SMB servers.
No luck yet. Seems it's loading samba as a kernel extension but I can't seem to unload / restart it.
Connecting is not the problem. Keeping it alive seems to be the problem.
There are two ways:
1. Go to your Sharing system preferences and uncheck the file sharing service (optionally go to the "Options" in sharing and disable SMB specifically). Then reverse these settings to turn it back on.
2. Use the launchctl utility in the Terminal to stop and restart the samba daemon. Open the Terminal and enter the following command to stop the daemon:
sudo launchctl stop org.samba.smbdAfter this is done, redo the command with "start" to restart the daemon:
sudo launchctl start org.samba.smbdorg.samba.smbd does not seem to exist on 10.6.7
only launchd processes I found were:
List those loaded by running "sudo launchctl list" in the Terminal, and see which ones reference "smbd" in their name. Apple still uses the open source samba suite in 10.6, though it is changing to an internally developed smb suite in 10.7.
I wonder if its hanging because the process is not launching or being handled properly by launchd. Do you have a file called "smbd.plist" in the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder?
"sudo launchctl list | grep smb" only returns those 3 processes I listed earlier.
However smbd.plist does exist, it is referencing "org.samba.smbd" and set to a DISABLED state. This weird because I can connect to smb shares just fine. If it's not using samba what is it?
I'm hoping 10.7 will solve the problem as it has been corrupting Parallels images from time to time. I can't believe this is so bad and damaging.
How do I restart samba on OSX 10.6.7?