Binary package hint: samba
When my laptop boots network is not yet configured since NM didn´t start it yet. Samba however tries to start since it is in S20 on rc2-5.d but it fails immediately because no network is configured yet. Running - sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart - is fine.
In the log file I can find the following pair of errors:
[2009/04/18 11:22:48, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(540)
WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/04/18 11:22:49, 0] smbd/server.c:open_sockets_smbd(548)
open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to.
Trying to resolve the problem, I wrote an updown script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d naming it 02samba:
$ ls -l /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
total 12K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K 2008-10-21 05:17 01ifupdown
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9K 2009-05-08 11:35 02samba
If this solution makes sense I would recommend that it would be added to Ubuntu samba server package.
Here is the script I wrote:
#!/bin/sh -e
# Script to dispatch NetworkManager events
#
# Runs ifupdown scripts when NetworkManager fiddles with interfaces.
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "$0: called with no interface" 1>&2
exit 1;
fi
# Fake ifupdown environment
export IFACE="$1"
export LOGICAL="$1"
export ADDRFAM="NetworkManager"
export METHOD="NetworkManager"
export VERBOSITY="0"
notRunningCont=`/etc/init.d/samba status | grep -c not` # count "not running"
# Run the right scripts
case "$2" in
up)
export MODE="start"
export PHASE="up"
if [ -e /var/run/network/ifstate ]
then
if grep --silent eth /var/run/network/ifstate
then
case $notRunningCont in # count "not running"
2) # both smbd and nmbd are down. start them
exec /etc/init.d/samba start
;;
1) # probably smbd faild.
exec /etc/init.d/samba restart
;;
0) # samba seems running
;;
*) # unknown situation. try to restart anyways
exec /etc/init.d/samba restart
esac
fi
fi
;;
down)
export MODE="stop"
export PHASE="down"
if [ -e /var/run/network/ifstate ]
then
if grep --silent eth /var/run/network/ifstate
then # network is still up. Make sure samba is also up.
case $notRunningCont in
2) # both smbd and nmbd are down. start them
exec /etc/init.d/samba start
;;
1) # probably smbd faild.
exec /etc/init.d/samba restart
;;
0) # samba seems running
;;
*) # unknown situation. try to restart anyways
exec /etc/init.d/samba restart
esac
else # shut samba down
exec /etc/init.d/samba stop
fi
else # same here. Shut it down
exec /etc/init.d/samba stop
fi
;;
pre-up)
export MODE="start"
export PHASE="pre-up"
exec run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
;;
post-down)
export MODE="stop"
export PHASE="post-down"
exec run-parts /etc/network/if-post-down.d
;;
*)
echo "$0: called with unknown action \`$2'" 1>&2
exit 1
;;
esac
Can't reproduce that on Jaunty. On my laptop, switching to VC1 before logging into Gnome (and having NM connect to my wireless) smbd and nmbd (default smb.conf) are running, listening to *.*
Could you tell me what version of Ubuntu you're running and attach your smb.conf ?