How to restart samba server?

Start

sudo service smbd start

Stop

sudo service smbd stop

Restart

sudo service smbd restart

You can also do this way:

Start

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd start

Stop

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd stop

Restart

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

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If you got an error, try using these commends this nmbd instead.

Starting with 15.04 and systemd, the command is systemctl restart smbd