Does NMBD depend on DHCP?
- by Atilla Filiz
I am trying to debug a SMB share issue on an embedded Linux setup. Before diving into source code, I want to make sure this is not a configuration problem. So here is my case:
Scenario-1: dhcp server enabled by default
1- system boots
2- udhcpcd server starts
3- smb server starts (smbd)
4- nmb server starts (nmbd)
5- smb share accessible
Scenario-2: dhcp server disabled by default
1- system boots
2- smbd starts
3- nmbd fails to start
4- smb share inaccessible
5- $/etc/init.d/udhcpcd start
6- $/usr/sbin/nmbd still fails without an error message
The client pc and the server device have static IP addresses in both cases.
Is it possible that, NMBD somehow depends on a DHCP server at start?