Intermittent network connection problem

[Jim Byrnes]

NoOp wrote:
> 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

NoOp,

Thanks alot for the detailed examples.  They will save me a lot of 
reboots.

Also, you helped me redefine the real problem and that is Samba not 
starting. I just Googled that and see some hits, so maybe the longterm 
solution lies there.

Thanks again,  Jim