Samba is Bi-Polar?

[Mike Bird]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 17:17, AA wrote:
> So basically, the problem is that samba does load, but
> the only way I can acctually get it to work is to open
> synaptic and search for 'samba' everytime I want to
> use it.  This makes no sense to me, as all I am doing
> is doing is trying to access the shared folder,
> failing, open synaptic and then samba magically starts
> working again.  

It may be that all that is needed is a delay of half a
minute to a minute while the samba client and samba server
find each other.

If it takes longer than that, try checking (via "ps ax"
or otherwise) to determine when the smbd and nmbd processes
actually start running.

--Mike Bird