Laptops and nmbd

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:07:45PM -0700, Timothy Keeler wrote:
> Was there ever a resolution or explanation around this? 
> 
> ----
> /Oke,
> 
> When you run nmbd on a laptop and don't launch it from inetd but run it
> directly as nmbd -D then nmbd shuts down when you disconnect the laptop,
> because there are no more subnets.
> 
> nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(259)
>   reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down...
> 
> So everytime you disconnect your laptop and connect somewhere else you need
> to restart nmbd. Is there any specific reason for this?
> 
> Why not idle the process 30 secs and then try to reload the interfaces
> again????

I think I recently fixed this - might be in 3.0.25b, if not
it should be in the (upcoming) 25c.

Jeremy.