Samba won't connect after boot, requires restart of smbd

[Stan]

Binary package hint: samba

Kubuntu 10.10, KDE 4.5.1, samba 2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ubuntu8

On my Kubuntu system I have set up Samba to share out two directories.

The problem is: when I boot (or reboot) the Kubuntu system and then try to connect to these shares from my iMac, I get a "Connection failed" error on the iMac. This error implies that the iMac can not at all contact the Samba server.

However, right after booting the Kubuntu system the Samba daemon is in fact running; to wit: "service smbd status" produces a message like "smbd start/running, process 4313".

It is not until I restart the Samba daemon on the Kubuntu system with "sudo service smbd restart" that the Samba server comes on-line and the shares become available to the iMac. I tested this with two different macs, one running Tiger, the other Leopard; I do not have a Windows PC.

This bug already existed in Lucid. It has been reported more than once (can't find the bug numbers though...).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: samba 2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
BothFailedConnect: Yes
Date: Sun Oct 31 15:51:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
NmbdLog:

ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
SambaServerRegression: No
SmbConfInclude: Yes
SmbLog:

SourcePackage: samba

[Robie Basak (racb)]

This bugs looks like a duplicate of either bug 374589 or bug 836849.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Agreed Robie, 374589 is a good place to gather the requirements for an attempt to make samba resilient when 'interfaces' mentions an interface that is entirely transient.