Samba shares not accessible - restart fix

[atomicben]

Well, if you think the router may have been involved, this article would not be complete without that information.

Linksys / Cisco WRT54G2 FW Ver 1.0.03

[Using Debian]

Just wanted to say thanks. I will apply these steps as well. If all goes well, this post will be my only on the subject

[inforvez]

hello,

i have the same kind of problem, but with my printer:

When I first start or reboot my shared printer is not accessable by a windows user - note that my shared folder is accessible.

All I have to do to get things going again is:

sudo service smbd restart

my smb.conf look like this:

[global]
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
map to guest = Bad User
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.
printable = Yes
browseable = No
browsable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers

[share]
comment = Ubuntu File Server Share
path = /srv/samba/share
read only = No
create mask = 0755
guest ok = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.
printable = Yes
browseable = No
browsable = No

Any ideas?

thanks

[Ryanm2890]

My printer also becomes invisible on my shared network whenever a boot or reboot occurs and it becomes visible again when samba is restarted. If anyone can provide any insight as to why it works after samba restart but not after boot, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

[bab1]

My printer also becomes invisible on my shared network whenever a boot or reboot occurs and it becomes visible again when samba is restarted. If anyone can provide any insight as to why it works after samba restart but not after boot, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like the nmbd process is not starting a boot time, When things become invisible again, post back here the output of

ps -e|grep mbd

[Ryanm2890]

Sounds like the nmbd process is not starting a boot time, When things become invisible again, post back here the output of

ps -e|grep mbd

When I type that in i get:

683?       00:00:00 smbd
711?       00:00:00 smbd
1285?     00:00:00 smbd

Also, the "mbd" is highlighted in red. I should have put in the above post that my printer becomes invisible to the other computer on the network, not the computer its plugged into. Forgive me if anything looks suspicious, I'm both a new to Linux and these forums. Thanks.

[bab1]

When I type that in i get:

683?       00:00:00 smbd
711?       00:00:00 smbd
1285?     00:00:00 smbd

Also, the "mbd" is highlighted in red.

...because that's the search term we used.

I should have put in the above post that my printer becomes invisible to the other computer on the network, not the computer its plugged into. Forgive me if anything looks suspicious, I'm both a new to Linux and these forums. Thanks.

It seems like nmbd (the Samba name service daemon) is not starting or quitting for no apparent reason. I'll bet it's not starting.

What version of Ubuntu are you running?

Without changing anything, lets try and restart it nmbd with

sudo service nmbd restart

if it gripes then we will have to try these two commands

sudo service nmbd stop

...and then

sudo service nmbd start

[Ryanm2890]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. When I try to restart it doesn't give me any problems. Thank you for your quick responses, this has been driving me crazy.

[bab1]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. When I try to restart it doesn't give me any problems. Thank you for your quick responses, this has been driving me crazy.

Post the output of this

cat /etc/init/nmbd.conf

[Ryanm2890]

Post the output of this

cat /etc/init/nmbd.conf

description "NetBIOS name server"
author      "Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>"

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

expect fork
respawn

pre-start script
    [ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || { stop; exit 0; }

    install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
    NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null || true`

    [ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

    exit 0
end script

exec nmbd -D

So is this saying that NMBD is disabled upon startup?