Intermittent network connection problem

[NoOp]

On 12/17/2009 09:08 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
...

>> Another datapoint that I've found inherent on nearly all Win systems
>> using Samba; if you click on "Entire Network" and then select the
>> appropriate workgroup & system from there, it works in most cases. Give
>> that a try as well.
> 
> Based on my experiences over the last couple of days I don't believe it 
> is an OS/2 problem. I don't have a lot of network expertise so I will 
> have to express this in layman's terms. Sometimes when Ubuntu boots it 
> does not initialize Samaba so there is nothing for other machines to 
> connect to.  I believe this because if I use the Network file browser 
> when I cannot connect there is only a Windows network shown, but the 
> times I can connect there is a Samba and a Windows network displayed. If 
> I cannot connect the only solution I have found is to reboot Ubuntu 
> until I can connect.

To check the status of samba:

$ /etc/init.d/samba status

Output should be:
$ /etc/init.d/samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is running

To start/stop/restart etc
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|status}

So if you find that samba is not running:
$ /etc/init.d/samba status
 * could not access PID file for nmbd
 * could not access PID file for smbd

you can restart:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba start

and then you should get the running status again:
$ /etc/init.d/samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is running

> 
> I actually have XP running in VirtualBox already.  I know that when I 
> can connect with OS/2 I can connect with XP.  Because now after I boot 
> Ubuntu I check to see what network connections are available I have not 
> actually tested trying to connect with XP when OS/2 won't. I will test 
> this the next time I cannot connect with OS/2.
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
>