Comment 80 for bug 462169

Ok Steve, not being a Samba guru, was just trying to figure this out.

After having browsed through the well known "Using Samba" (http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html), I did not get this understanding of smbd versus nmbd.

I've been using Samba like that (smbd+nmbd, with or without network) on a home server for several years, and on the way now to migrating the whole thing on Ubuntu.

Just sharing this information, that loading nmbd at boot, even with no network, did solve the problem for me.
I did not notice nmbd too much complaining about no network, here is the log I get in log.nmbd, looks like nmbd just sits and waits for a network I/F to come up:

   nmbd version 3.4.7 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2010/05/16 16:42:30, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:206(create_subnets)
  create_subnets: No local IPv4 non-loopback interfaces !
[2010/05/16 16:42:30, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:207(create_subnets)
  create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...