[intrepid]: nmbd fails to start

[StefanPotyra]

Binary package hint: samba

samba-common: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4

from log.nmbd
[2008/05/21 22:04:25, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(711)
  Netbios nameserver version 3.0.28a started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
[2008/05/21 22:04:25, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(245)
  create_subnets: unable to create any subnet from given interfaces. nmbd is terminating
[2008/05/21 22:04:25, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(785)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.

I assume, that the reason is somewhere in the maintainer scripts, which "must otherwise be good citizens"[1], but obviously are not ;).

/etc/samba/smb.ucf-dist last changed on 2008-04-05 14:32, which matches dpkg.log when samba-common was upgraded (from 3.0.28a-1ubuntu3).

attached: diff between smb.ucf-dist and smb.conf (I might have called a dpkg-reconfigre samba-common / or samba in between, not too sure if I backed up smb.conf before or afterwards).

anything else you need?

P.S.: In case it should matter for maintainer scripts/default config: I'm briding eth0 and eth1 to br0.

[1]: you surely know where this quote is from. I somehow never noticed this sentence before, but like it *g*.

Cheers,
    Stefan.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I don't see any way that this is a question of incorrect maintainer script handling. This diff:

@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@
 # The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
 # This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
 # interface names are normally preferred
-; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
+# interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
+ interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8

 # Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
 # 'interfaces' option above to use this.

cannot be a result of the maintainer script changing anything, you must have already had this 'interfaces' line manually set in smb.conf.

And therefore this is a configuration error, because it is not meaningful to run nmbd on non-broadcast interfaces, and you haven't listed any other interfaces that are broadcast interfaces on your 'interfaces' line.