[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#855918: Bug#855918: samba: connection refused after reboot, fixable by systemctl restart smbd

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello Louis.

(copy pasted from bug report as I didn´t find this mail of you)
 
> This bug is related to these to settings.
> 
>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>         interfaces = lo eth0
> 
> As tested by the user, remove these, and you done have start problems.

Yes.

> The other fix is :
>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>         interfaces = 127.0.0.1 YOUR_IP_HERE
> 
> Related to systemd startup, maybe, but ive seen this as of samba 3.6.x 
> 4.1.x  4.5.8  ( on debian, not tested on ubuntu ) I've not tested 4.6.5
> packages from unstable on this yet.

This doesn´t work for me.

As after a restart the smbclient will be able to connect, I suspect it is a 
timing issue on network start. For you it might work with IP adresses… but the 
fileserver VM really starts pretty fast on the SSD based Intel Nuc with Skylake 
CPU. That might be the reason that for me it doesn´t even work when I add IP 
of fileserver host there.

So for now on my setup I remove this completely. As long as a fileserver will 
only have network interfaces to networks it serves files to I don´t see a 
problem with that. That sounds like a sane setup anyway to me. Have it just be 
a fileserver for the desired networks and no extra stuff on there.

Thanks,