Samba only works after it's restarted

[c-m]

I have my 14.10 machine as a samba server, but oddly samba only works after I run "sudo service smbd restart"

I do remember seeing a thread on this but I can't find it now.

The problem seems to be that the samba server loads up before the network card is initialised.

Is there a way to fix this once and for all?

[bab1]

I have my 14.10 machine as a samba server, but oddly samba only works after I run "sudo service smbd restart"

I do remember seeing a thread on this but I can't find it now.

The problem seems to be that the samba server loads up before the network card is initialised.

Is there a way to fix this once and for all?

How do you know that the Samba daemons are not running?

When you have the Samba server in the non-running condition (initial boot ???), what do you get from this command

pgrep -l mbd

What is the exact response when you use sudo service smbd restart initially? The response is different when starting the smbd daemon form when re-starting the daemon.

[c-m]

When I run 'sudo service smbd restart' I get:

smbd stop/waiting
smbd start/running, process 31866

After the restart:

pgrep -l mbd
1159 nmbd
31866 smbd
31871 smbd

Before the restart:

pgrep -l mbd
1206 smbd
1209 smbd
1240 nmbd

[bab1]

When I run 'sudo service smbd restart' I get:

smbd stop/waiting
smbd start/running, process 31866

After the restart:

pgrep -l mbd
1159 nmbd
31866 smbd
31871 smbd

Before the restart:

pgrep -l mbd
1206 smbd
1209 smbd
1240 nmbd

It appears that the Samba server is running when the machine is initially started. Note that in all of the above tests both smbd and nmbd are running.
When restarting the service smbd just re-announcing itself to the network.

Is browsing the network initially your problem?

[c-m]

Yes. Unless I run 'sudo service smbd restart' after turning the computer on, my other devices cannot connect to the server.

[bab1]

Yes. Unless I run 'sudo service smbd restart' after turning the computer on, my other devices cannot connect to the server.

Did you use the configuration tips I gave you on your earlier Samba server (name resolve order = bcast). I would also use this: netbios name = "some name" (where "some name" is a name that is 15 characters or less. What do you get from this command

hostname

This type of problem is due to the host naming process (NETBIOS) is not configured correctly. What do you get from this command

cat /etc/hosts

[c-m]

Hmm

hostname
Home

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	Home

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

In samba.conf netbios is Samba24

[global]
	netbios name = Samba24

[bab1]

Hmm

hostname
Home

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	Home

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

In samba.conf netbios is Samba24

[global]
	netbios name = Samba24

I assume you mean the file smb.conf NOT samba.conf.

Right under netbios name = Samba24 you can add the line

name resolve order = bcast

...then you can reboot the system.

See if you can browse for Samba24

[c-m]

unfortunately there is no change after added that. On a fresh reboot i can't access the server by IP or name.

I don't see how this doesn't affect everyone running 14.04 and 14.10 as I haven't done anything special to the default samba conf.

[bab1]

unfortunately there is no change after added that. On a fresh reboot i can't access the server by IP or name.

It's hard to diagnose "no change after I added that". What errors do you get?

If you can't connect by IP address from a remote client then you have IP networking problems that you need to cure before Samba will work.

Can you connect to Samba from the Samba server itself? Samba can be both a Server and a Client at the same time.

Post the output of this command from the Samba server terminal

smbtree -d3