[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#433449: samba: nmbd shuts down when network interfaces go down

[Steve Langasek]

tags 433449 upstream
thanks

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:12:48AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> My system's network connection is a wireless one, and whenever I bring
> the interface down to change networks, or get the hardware's driver back
> into an unconfused state (it's not the most stable piece of coding),
> nmbd exits.

> [2007/07/17 09:00:19, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(229)
>   reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down...

> It should just hang around, listening on localhost

It doesn't do this because nmbd is of no use listening on localhost alone;
the services it provides make no sense on a loopback interface.

> and/or 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) until another network interface comes
> back up.

I don't know why it doesn't do this, but this question has recently been
raised on the upstream mailing list as well.

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