Intermittent network connection problem

[Joep L. Blom]

Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/17/2009 09:08 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>> NoOp wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>>> Another datapoint that I've found inherent on nearly all Win systems
>>>> using Samba; if you click on "Entire Network" and then select the
>>>> appropriate workgroup & system from there, it works in most cases. Give
>>>> that a try as well.
>>> Based on my experiences over the last couple of days I don't believe it 
>>> is an OS/2 problem. I don't have a lot of network expertise so I will 
>>> have to express this in layman's terms. Sometimes when Ubuntu boots it 
>>> does not initialize Samaba so there is nothing for other machines to 
>>> connect to.  I believe this because if I use the Network file browser 
>>> when I cannot connect there is only a Windows network shown, but the 
>>> times I can connect there is a Samba and a Windows network displayed. If 
>>> I cannot connect the only solution I have found is to reboot Ubuntu 
>>> until I can connect.
>> To check the status of samba:
>>
>> $ /etc/init.d/samba status
>>
>> Output should be:
>> $ /etc/init.d/samba status
>>  * nmbd is running
>>  * smbd is running
>>
>> To start/stop/restart etc
>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|status}
>>
>> So if you find that samba is not running:
>> $ /etc/init.d/samba status
>>  * could not access PID file for nmbd
>>  * could not access PID file for smbd
>>
>> you can restart:
>> $ sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
>>
>> and then you should get the running status again:
>> $ /etc/init.d/samba status
>>  * nmbd is running
>>  * smbd is running
> 
> NoOp,
> 
> Thanks alot for the detailed examples.  They will save me a lot of 
> reboots.
> 
> Also, you helped me redefine the real problem and that is Samba not 
> starting. I just Googled that and see some hits, so maybe the longterm 
> solution lies there.
> 
> Thanks again,  Jim
> 
> 
small remark Noop: it's safer to use sudo service samba status instead
of the direct use of the scripts in /etc/int.d/
Joep