[Samba] Samba not seeing any interfaces

[Yan Seiner]

I've built samba for an embedded mips platform.  Since this is an 
embedded platform, it's possible that some critical file that samba 
needs is missing but stracing the daemons doesn't reveal anything strange.

It's running 2.4.34 kernel.

Samba is failing to find any interfaces.

[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 3] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(759)
  Opening sockets 137
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 10] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(839)
  bind succeeded on port 137
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 10] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(839)
  bind succeeded on port 138
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 5] lib/util_sock.c:print_socket_options(206)
  socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0

.... (bunch of print stuff).....

[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 3] nmbd/nmbd.c:open_sockets(615)
  open_sockets: Broadcast sockets opened.
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 2] lib/interface.c:interpret_interface(130)
  can't determine netmask for 192.168.128.199
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(229)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(190)
  create_subnets: No local interfaces !
[2000/01/02 10:55:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(191)
  create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...
[2000/01/02 10:55:06, 2] lib/interface.c:interpret_interface(130)
  can't determine netmask for 192.168.128.199
[2000/01/02 10:55:06, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(229)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2000/01/02 10:55:11, 2] lib/interface.c:interpret_interface(130)
  can't determine netmask for 192.168.128.199
[2000/01/02 10:55:11, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(229)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2000/01/02 10:55:16, 2] lib/interface.c:interpret_interface(130)
  can't determine netmask for 192.168.128.199

and this repeats forever.

My smb.conf:

#======================= Global Settings 
=====================================
[global]
 syslog = 0
 syslog only = yes
 workgroup = seiner.lan
 server string = OpenWrt Samba Server
 max log size = 50
 security = share
 encrypt passwords = yes
 smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
 guest account = nobody
 local master = yes
 name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.smbd
# hosts allow = 127.
 interfaces = 192.168.128.199 <=== I've tried eth0.1 
192.168.0.0./255.255.0.0 eth* and probably some others
# bind interfaces only = false
# 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192