Vivid: Restart Samba

**gmport** · April 2nd, 2015

I'm trying out Vivid. After installing samba and setting up, I tried to start it with:

Code:

sudo restart smbd

This returned:

Code:

restart: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused

Realising Vivid is using Systemd. So I then tried:

Code:

sudo systemctl restart smb.service

And got:

Code:

Failed to restart smb.service: Unit smb.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Could someone tell me the correct command.

Regards
gmport

**zika** · April 2nd, 2015

smbd.service is name of service in SystemD.
nmbd.service might also need restart.

**gmport** · April 2nd, 2015

Thank you Zika that works and nmbd does need restarting.

Best regards
gmport

**Fernando_Jara** · January 17th, 2016

I have the same issue.
Could you please provide me the steps to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

**Cavsfan** · January 17th, 2016

Originally Posted by zika

smbd.service is name of service in SystemD.
nmbd.service might also need restart.

Originally Posted by Fernando_Jara

I have the same issue.
Could you please provide me the steps to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Code:

sudo systemctl restart smbd.service

Code:

sudo systemctl restart nmbd.service

**Doug S** · February 6th, 2016

Originally Posted by Cavsfan

Code:

sudo systemctl restart smbd.service

Code:

sudo systemctl restart nmbd.service

Aghhh, thanks. Been looking for hours. I 've just been re-booting, but now I need to be able to restart without booting and "sudo restart smbd" (as suggested in the Ubuntu serverguide) no longer works.

EDIT: I guess we have a pile of work to do for the 16.04 Ubuntu serverguide.

**Cavsfan** · February 6th, 2016

Originally Posted by Cavsfan

Code:

sudo systemctl restart smbd.service

Code:

sudo systemctl restart nmbd.service

Originally Posted by Doug S

Aghhh, thanks. Been looking for hours. I 've just been re-booting, but now I need to be able to restart without booting and "sudo restart smbd" (as suggested in the Ubuntu serverguide) no longer works.

EDIT: I guess we have a pile of work to do for the 16.04 Ubuntu serverguide.

I actually know nothing about it. I just put 2 and 2 together from what Zika was saying. Glad it helped though.