daemon/network restart question

[Apostata]

Howdy,

Okay. Call me a newbie (why else would I be here?), but when I make a change to the smb.conf file and restart the smbd/nmbd daemons , the Samba server doesn't show up in the Network Neighbourhood of the Win98 clients.

What should I be restarting (via console) and, pardon my ignorance, how? Doesn't 'nmbd' control NetBIOS recognition?

Thanks in advance.

[Stackrat]

You are correct. There is no need to restart nmbd if you only make changes that affect smbd shares.

[Apostata]

That's what I figured. But if that's the case then why does killing/restarting the smbd/nmbd daemons make the Samba server disappear in Win98 Network Neighbourhood, thus forcing me to reboot the server.

Is there another daemon I need to restart also?

Is it the way I'm restarting the Samba daemons?

Example:

kill 1234 (smbd)
kill 1236 (nmbd)
smbd -D
nmbd -D