9:04: samba needs to restart to work

[bladerunner6]

I seem to have an issue whereby I have to restart samba server for the ubuntu shares to show in windows etc.

the service is set to on during bootup.
my ubuntu 9.04 is fully updated and I used gadmin to configure the samba conf file (I am using in a normal workgroup and no domains)
I can post the contents here.

[kamaji792]

Are you sure your samba is starting up?

Try the following in a console:

$ ps -ef |grep mbd

Just tried it on mine and the output was:

root      4448     1  0 16:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
root      4451     1  0 16:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root      4479  4451  0 16:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
gavin     4552  4533  0 16:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mbd

atb

[y2kboy23]

I too was experiencing this problem. What I figured out is that UFW was blocking some communications with Samba. Just added the "allow from 192.168.1.0/24" or whatever your local network is, and my Samba hasn't needed to be restarted yet. Give that a try.

[bladerunner6]

my output is
root 23610 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
root 23612 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 23615 23612 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 24099 23612 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 24102 23612 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
z 24219 24202 0 21:07 pts/1 00:00:00 grep mbd

firewall also is set correctly,

i got to manually switch off the samba and on again