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Richard Morris
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject: SAMBA - Service will not start without eth0 or ppp0 [SOLVED] |
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Hi,
I've recently got a new laptop that I have installed with gentoo. I'm using the AMD64 2008.0 profile and ~amd64.
I've just installed samba, however I can't get it to start. I get the following errors depending on how I'm connecting to the network:
Connected Wirelessly Only
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compaq ~ # /etc/init.d/samba start
* WARNING: samba is scheduled to start when net.eth0, net.ppp0 has started
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Connected Wired as well
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compaq ~ # /etc/init.d/samba start
* WARNING: samba is scheduled to start when net.ppp0 has started
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I have three network devices configured, a wired network eth0, a wireless network wlan0 and a 3G connection via bluetooth and my phone ppp0.
All three devices are started by the default runlevel, and netplug is installed too.
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compaq ~ # rc-update show | grep -e net\\.[a-z][a-z][a-z].
net.eth0 | default
net.ppp0 | default
net.wlan0 | default
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The init scripts for them are symlinked to net.lo
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compaq ~ # ls -la /etc/init.d | grep -e net\\.[a-z][a-z][a-z].
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 26 16:32 net.eth0 -> net.lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 19 21:28 net.ppp0 -> net.lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 23 10:47 net.wlan0 -> net.lo
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This has appeared to be reliable and network interfaces are initialized as required, for example net.ppp0 doesn't start dialing the internet unless a network cable isn't connected and a wireless network connection can't be negotiated. What do I need to change so that samba will start with either a wired or wireless network connected?
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defenderBG
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Remove the net.* that you dont need.
If you are to use net.wlan0 (wireless), than remove the other nets (rc-update del net.eth0 net.ppp0)
then restart samba.
The idea behind that script is that you have a server, where the connections are persistent and it should wait until all connections are online and then start. |
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richard.scott
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It sounds to me like you've installed something like ifplugd that will monitor the link status of a connection and only start services when the link is up.
In theory there's nothing wring with this as it should start the service only when it seens a live interface.
What happens after you try and start samba if you do the following:
| Code: | | rjs ~ # ps -edf | grep mbd |
You should see the following:
| Code: | rjs ~ # ps -edf | grep mbd
root 28099 1 0 14:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 28103 28099 0 14:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 28109 1 0 14:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D |
That is if "ifconfig" shows your device as being up then the daemons should be running. |
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Richard Morris
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Gentlemen, thank you very much for your suggestions and pointing me in the right direction.
After a little more googing and including ifplugd in the search terms too (currently I'm using netplugd, but ifplugd looks a little more useful). I've found that I needed to edit /etc/rc.conf and change
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rc_depend_strict="yes"
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rc_depend_strict="no"
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