Starting SAMBA at boot up

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Dear All,

It seems that the reason that I can’t use my network (Wi-Fi) Linux and Windows Boxes is that SAMBA is not running after the system boots or reboots.

Can anyone suggest how to make SAMBA start during the boot up stage.

I am running Peppermint-One.

Thanks.

2

See if this works…

First check samba ISN’T running:

ps ax | grep smbd

If it ISN’T running, you should get something similar to -

1034 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto smbd

If it IS running, you should get something similar to -

1053 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D 1055 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D 1057 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto smbd

If it ISN’T running (at bootup), open /etc/network/if-up.d/samba for editing:

sudo leafpad /etc/network/if-up.d/samba

What opens, should look like this:

#!/bin/sh

Try to bring nmbd up when an interface comes up, if smbd is already running.

Don’t bother to do anything for lo.

if [ “$IFACE” = lo ]; then
exit 0
fi

Only run from ifup.

if [ “$MODE” != start ]; then
exit 0
fi

Samba only cares about inet and inet6. Get thee gone, strange people

still using ipx.

case $ADDRFAM in
inet|inet6|NetworkManager)
;;
*)
exit 0
;;
esac

status=$(/etc/init.d/samba status)

Really only necessary to do anything if nmbd is not already running

if echo “$status” | grep -q ‘smbd is running’
&& ! echo “$status” | grep -q ‘nmbd is running’
then
/etc/init.d/samba start
fi

exit 0

Add a line, just above the exit 0 line, that reads
service samba restart

So it now reads -

#!/bin/sh

Try to bring nmbd up when an interface comes up, if smbd is already running.

Don’t bother to do anything for lo.

if [ “$IFACE” = lo ]; then
exit 0
fi

Only run from ifup.

if [ “$MODE” != start ]; then
exit 0
fi

Samba only cares about inet and inet6. Get thee gone, strange people

still using ipx.

case $ADDRFAM in
inet|inet6|NetworkManager)
;;
*)
exit 0
;;
esac

status=$(/etc/init.d/samba status)

Really only necessary to do anything if nmbd is not already running

if echo “$status” | grep -q ‘smbd is running’
&& ! echo “$status” | grep -q ‘nmbd is running’
then
/etc/init.d/samba start
fi
service samba restart
exit 0

SAVE the file, and reboot… now test again with

ps ax | grep smbd
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Working much better now have noted that Linux machine needs to be started first, do not know why .

Thank you.