[Bug 750786] Re: nmbd job fails to start on boot

[apo]

To let you know that you are not alone.. I experienced the not starting
nmbd in maverick and natty also. My workaround is to restart it via
rc.local like:

sleep 30
service nmbd restart

I am glad to see that you are already investigating this. Thank you!

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Title:
  nmbd job fails to start on boot

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  Samba fails to start on boot to enable remote file access on ubuntu
  and windows.

  I was able to fix the nmbd startup issue on natty and maverick!

  It has to do with the init scrip at /etc/init/nmbd.conf

  The start line needs to state start on local-filesystems ONLY!

  The loopback ethernet interfaces start too late to satisfy the
  chronological dependency for nmbd to load as process...

  Thus, /etc/init/nmbd.conf content should be:

  
  description "NetBIOS name server"
  author      "Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>"

  start on (local-filesystems)
  stop on runlevel [!2345]

  expect fork
  respawn

  pre-start script
  	mkdir -p /var/run/samba

          [ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || { stop; exit 0; }

  	install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
  	NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`

          [ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

  	exit 0
  end script

  exec nmbd -D

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr  4 17:46:02 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu11.1
   gvfs     1.7.3-0ubuntu2
  SambaClientRegression: Yes
  SourcePackage: samba
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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