Manually starting Samba at boot ?

[javiergc]

Hello everybody !

I have installed Samba in my Pi 4 (Raspbian) and I can access my shared folders from Windows 10... but Samba always starts at boot time, and I prefer to start/stop the server manually, how can I do that ?

Thanks in advance!

[peter_shaw]

samba is handled via systemctl. process name is "smbd".

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sudo systemctl disable smbd

this disables the autostart

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sudo systemctl start smbd

this starts the service

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sudo systemctl stop smbd

this stops the service

you can check the status with

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sudo systemctl status smbd

[javiergc]

Thanks a lot ! I can prevent smbd to start at Raspian boot with:

$ sudo systemctl disable smbd

And to start at boot again:

$ sudo systemctl enable smbd

Only one more question please, is there any difference with these commands ?

$ sudo systemctl start smbd

$ sudo service smbd start