[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#501075: Bug#501075: Bug#501075: samba: Daemons don't start on boot because network is not yet up

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:41:24PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Juergen Stuber (juergen at jstuber.net):

> Sorry for coming back very late on your bug report. I'm currently
> triaging bugs in the samba package.

> I was puzzled by the interfaces lines in your smb.conf file:

> > 	interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8, 10.158.2.0/24
> > 	bind interfaces only = Yes

> Is the server IP address *really* 10.158.2.0?

> I'm not entirely sure (from the manpage) that an IP/mask element in
> "interfaces" can have the network address as IP address instead of the
> server address in that network.

It is not allowed.  The allowed options are: an interface name, an IP
address, an IP/mask pair, or a broadcast/mask pair; using network/mask is
not allowed and is not guaranteed to work correctly.

So this could have some influence here, though I'm not sure exactly what.

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