I had Samba up and running and it stopped working. The problem is that the NMBD service will not start up. If I issue systemctl status nmbd.service I get Status: "nmbd: No local IPv4 non-loopback interfaces available, waiting for interface..."

If I issue the ifconfig command I get back (abridged for space):

eno1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu1500 . . . lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536

I don't understand. Googling hasn't helped.

Thanks much.

2 Answers

Check smb.conf and see if you got this:

interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

If so you may wanna change eth0 to any working NIC port that would show up with ip link. For me, changing it to:

interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 enp1s0

works wonder. Only need to restart nmdb afterwards.

Your issue is that you have no ipv4 address at the time nmbd is starting up. This could happen, for example, if your network is wireless and only connected after you login on a desktop.

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