Intermittent network connection problem

[NoOp]

On 12/17/2009 05:40 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
...
>> 
>>>From the cli/terminal:
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get purge samba
>> $ sudo apt-get install samba
>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
>> 
>> 
> 
> Actually googling revealed that other people have had the same problem. 
>   Apparently a race condition can develop between DHCP and the network 
> manager.  I don't have much experience reading the bug tracker but it 
> looks like a bug was filed and confirmed and then maybe cleared and then 
> refiled.  A number of scripting workarounds were suggested.  I am not 
> experienced enough to try them, the info you gave me will work fine for 
> me until a fix is in place.
> 

Forgot to add that when you install/reinstall from Synaptic, you still
should restart the session:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
or
$ sudo services samba restart

But in your case, you might want to also do a reboot just to see if smdb
and nmdb fire up & are running on the reboot. Note: it's not usually
necessary to reboot, but given your previous problem(s) it can't hurt to
test.