Restarting Samba from command line

[diskmaster23]

Tried looking for a solution, but wasn't able to find out how to restart services for FreeNAS. How do you restart the Samba service from the command line?

In addition, I would like to do a cron job where it restarts Samba once a night. I have a problem with not having swap space and the Samba freaks out causing it to crash. Having a cron job to restart Samba once a night will levitate this problem until I am able to create swap space for the OS.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

[cyberjock]

You know if you search for "samba restart" the top thread(ignoring yours which is the top) has your answer.

 

[diskmaster23]

Oops....sorry.

 

[superlistingteam]

What's hilarious is that this is the top result for "freenas restart samba" on google, and on this forum itself. I'll just post the answer here for future internetians:

Code:

service samba_server restart

 

[cookie910]

My good man, I love you.

 

[cogprying]

I'll second the love. I don't know whether it's inbreeding or some other affliction, but some developer thought it'd be an awesome idea to limit the auxiliary parameters of the smb share section of the webgui to 120 characters*, seemingly making the only way to now actually edit and add any being via CLI and a restart with it.

(And of course, Freenas doesn't do silly things like just leave things unchanged, so references like https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-samba.html which state it's

Code:

service samba

are inaccurate.)
*

(and just removing the maxlength does nothing...)

 

[appliance]

command not doing anything, only service -R helps. happy for advice for 2019..

 

[anodos]

command not doing anything, only service -R helps. happy for advice for 2019..

Please read 11.3 BETA1 release notes. https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-beta1/
This is covered in detail:
You can restart all samba services by the command service samba_server onerestart or restart the service in question without the 'one' prefix. service smbd restart. Alternatively, you can restart by issuing the middleware command to do this midclt call service.restart cifs