I have reproduced the issue but using systemd-networkd instead of wicked and disabling systemd-networkd-wait-online.service. In this situation the network-online.target is reached as soon as systemd-networkd.service starts, so nmb.service is started before getting a DHCP IPv4 address triggering the 5 seconds sleep. But I can't reproduce it when using wicked. I have prepared a samba build with increased debug and having a shorter sleep interval. Could you please test the packages from this OBS repository and attach the system journal: 1. sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scabrero:/bsc1183148/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:scabrero:bsc1183148.repo 2. sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref 3. sudo zypper up --allow-vendor-change 4. reboot 5. sudo journalctl --boot -oshort-precise | tee journal.txt 6. sudo systemd-analyze plot > graph.svg 6. Attach journal.txt and graph.svg Thanks.