[Bug 996968] Re: Samba needs to be stopped and restarted in order to work

[Adrien Beau]

This bug is still present in 14.04 LTS. Putting the following line in
/etc/init/smbd.override solves it for me:

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)

(Putting this line in /etc/init/smbd.conf also works of course.)

Why can't this line be included in the standard smbd.conf that ships
with Ubuntu? The only downside I can see is that on computers which only
have a loopback interface, Samba will not start. But why would someone
want to use Samba in such a configuration?

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Title:
  Samba needs to be stopped and restarted in order to work

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1- I setup samba in order to have my server act as Domain Controller (I have NO windows server)
  2- after each reboot of my server (Internity), smbd and nmbd are running, but I am unable to connect to it
       (see first screen capture)
  3- stopping and restarting smbd and nmbd fixes this.
       It seems that on the first start, either smb did not uses the right smb.conf file, or that an early startup of samba 
       make it miss some files or ressources.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  9 09:36:18 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  SourcePackage: samba
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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